title: [Migration and Hansen's disease in Mato Grosso].
abstract: Studies on medical geography about leprosy discuss the role of the detailed report of the occupation of the territories as a basis of the permanence of leprosy focus. In Brazil, the states that present the highest rates of detection historically are in the Amazon region, which shows an uneven regional evolution of the disease. This paper analyzes the evolution of leprosy contextualizing the migratory processes that occurred in the State of Mato Grosso since the second half of the 20th century. The economic dynamism that occurred in the State in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s caused population growth rates higher than the national average. The data analyzed permitted an association between the evolution of leprosy and the process of occupation of the mato-grossense territory. However, the permanence of leprosy in the municipalities of the Baixada Cuiabana, as well as in other municipalities that lost population, seem to point to the existence of geographic contexts of different vulnerability to the social production of the disease in the tate. The migration would explain the appearance and evolution of leprosy. However, we consider that the maintenance of the endemic can be associated to contextual factors related to environment.
authors: Secretaria Executiva do Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, DF, Brasil. mariac.magalhaes@uol.com.br
authors: Maria da Conceição Cavalcanti
authors: Mda C
authors: Magalhães
authors: Emerson Soares
authors: ES
authors: dos Santos
authors: Maria de Lourdes
authors: Mde L
authors: de Queiroz
authors: Messias Lucas
authors: ML
authors: de Lima
authors: Rita Christina Martins
authors: RC
authors: Borges
authors: Maria Silva
authors: MS
authors: Souza
authors: Alberto Novaes
authors: AN
authors: Ramos
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000266:history*