Spatial-temporal analysis of leprosy in a priority Brazilian northeast municipality for disease control

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the spatial-temporal distribution of leprosy in a priority municipality for control. Methods: ecological study, conducted city Northeast Brazil, whose analysis units were census sectors. The study used compulsory notification data cases registered between 2008 and 2017. TerraView software Batch Geocode tool was geocoding. detection agglomerations high relative risks done by scanning statistics. Results: heterogeneous, creating four urban area years 2012; annual prevalence rates classified from hyperendemic. Conclusions: areas higher risk concentration disease space-time linked characteristics population density social vulnerability these spaces, raising prioritization health professionals’ actions, systems, services control, monitoring disease.