Capacidade instalada para pesquisa científica sobre Leishmanioses no Brasil, 2004 a 2008

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Tenorio, Marge [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Bibliometria; Doenças negligenciadas; Produção científica brasileira; Leishmanioses; Brasil; Bibliometrics; Neglected tropical diseases; Brazilian scientific production; Leishmaniasis; Brazil
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/9157

The Leishmaniasis are classified by WHO as one of ten tropical neglected diseases (NTD), which have high incidence, affecting impoverished segments of the population and do not get social visibility, so the investment in diagnostic, therapeutic and immunization are poor. The Leishmaniasis is part of the tropical diseases in expansion process and there aren’t appropriate mechanisms for its prevention and control. They represent a public health problem worldwide: 88 countries have at least one of the thirty species of Leishmania and 350 million individuals are exposed to contamination. In some species, the lethality of Leishmaniasis may reach 100% in untreated patients. Given this situation, we carried out an investigation to identify the profile of Brazilian scientific literature on the subject of Leishmaniasis in the period 2004-2008 in order to support the process of policy formulation and decision making of government administration, with regard to development of health research in this area of knowledge. The survey refers to a descriptive study with use of bibliometric analysis and documentary research. The Bibliometrics consists of a set of empirical laws and principles that form the theoretical foundations of information science. Bibliometric analysis included query, collection and recovery of quantitative information in the databases of health science in Brazil, then organization of the data collected, systematized into categories of indexing, record collection in Excel database and interpretative analysis of scientific and technological information obtained. The collection consisted of desk research and data analysis in institutional sectors of the federal government body health. In all of the following databases were located 749 publications produced in the period 2004-2008 on the theme of Leishmaniasis, of which 521 met the inclusion criteria. 415 scientific articles were published by Brazilian researchers in indexed journals, national and international. In the directory of research groups of the Lattes Platform, were identified from the register 214 groups dedicated to the theme. Received titles in this line of research (Leishmaniasis) 43 masters and 44 doctors. Bibliometric analysis and documentation identified growth trends of the Brazilian scientific production on Leishmaniasis, in the period 2004-2008, of great relevance to public health, because it is neglected tropical disease. Brazil has the largest number of research centers on Leishmaniasis in the world and serves on scientific-technical cooperation in national and international areas, so it can be stated that there is midsize capacity for research on the disease installed in the country. Identified studies in multi-center network can promote the expansion and strengthening of the groups directed to research on Leishmaniasis nationwide. It is understood that is desirable the induction of actions and policies to encourage research on clinical trials of phases I, II and III and on technological development in order to facilitate the increase in diagnosis and treatment of Leishmaniasis in the country.