Incidence of Leprosy – Real or Relative?

Incidence of leprosy in Agra district.

This study presents estimates of incidence of leprosy among the familial contacts (FC) and non-familial contacts (NFC) of leprosy patients in Agra, a district endemic for leprosy. The study covers 42,113 persons followed up for 123,951.2 person years (PY) during which 77 individuals developed leprosy giving an incidence of 6.2/10,000 PY in the total leprosy-free population studied (TLPS). The i...

Relative Importance in English and Persian: Thematization or Tonic Prominence?

There are two common ways to assign relative importance in spoken language: tonic prominence and thematization. The former is expressing the main points of information units in speech (Halliday, 1994), and the latter is putting an element at the beginning of a clause. This study explores how relative importance is realized in English and Persian. It also investigates how advanced Persian learne...

The future incidence of leprosy: a scenario analysis.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of the current strategy for the elimination of leprosy on its incidence and to assess the consequences of failure to sustain this strategy. METHODS Scenarios for assessing the impact of the elimination strategy were implemented in a computer simulation program. The scenarios reflected the assumptions made regarding contagiousness, transmission and bacille C...

Spatial analysis of leprosy incidence and associated socioeconomic factors.

OBJECTIVE To identify clusters of the major occurrences of leprosy and their associated socioeconomic and demographic factors. METHODS Cases of leprosy that occurred between 1998 and 2007 in São José do Rio Preto (southeastern Brazil) were geocodified and the incidence rates were calculated by census tract. A socioeconomic classification score was obtained using principal component analysis o...

Convergence – true or relative ?