The Leprosy, endemic illness in Brazil, infectum-contagious, of chronic character that
mainly affects the skin and the peripheral nerves, can cause irreversible incapacity
damages to the to attack individuais. This work objectified to carry through study on
the Prevention of Disabilities (PD) in leprosy, in the First Region of Health of
Rondônia, in the Program for Rub-out and Control of the leprosy with headquarters in
the city of Ji-Paraná, that involves the systematic attendance to the carriers of
leprosy of 16 surrounding cities. It was used as collection instrument a data-collecting
in the control maps and reports of 1a Region of Health of ali the individuais taken care
of in the program in the period of 2000 and 2001, considering age band, sex, c1inical
form and degree of incapacity. 331 individuais had been studied, in the age band of
10 the 84 years of both the sexo ln a later stage, the crossing of the data mentioned
above with other studies made regarding the subject was analyzed. Based in the
joined and argued results, he was evidenced the importance of the diagnosis
precocious, of the immediate handling for the use of the multidrug theraphy and the
prevention of disabilities as half to park or to retrograde happened injuries of the to
attack of the peripheral nerves and skin, found in some forms of leprosy mainly, the
Tuberculoid and Borderline, that are of bigger frequency in the studied area.
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