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R M Assuncao

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Articles 7
Citations 128
Followers 0
Related Specialties
Public Health
Microbiology
Top 10 Co-Authors
I A Reis
F A Proietti
C D Oliveira
S M Barreto
E Sakurai
S Gardiner
D B Evans
F C Marinho
H L Guerra
C C Beato Filho
Published In
Cad Saude Publica
Stat Med
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol
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Recent Articles
1.
Spatial distribution of human and canine visceral leishmaniasis in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brasil, 1994-1997
Oliveira C, Assuncao R, Reis I, Proietti F
Cad Saude Publica . 2001 Oct; 17(5):1231-9. PMID: 11679897
In this paper, we present spatial analysis of the association between all incidents cases of human Visceral Leishmaniasis and seropositive dogs, from 1994 to 1997 in Belo Horizonte, a large...
2.
Spatial distribution of the Human T-Lymphotropic Virus types I and II (HTLV-I/II) infection among blood donors of Hemominas Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, 1994-1996
Assuncao R, Proietti F
Cad Saude Publica . 2001 Oct; 17(5):1219-30. PMID: 11679896
We conducted a cross-sectional study of the spatial distribution of HTLV-I/II infection among blood donors of Hemominas Foundation, living in Belo Horizonte, from 1994 to 1996. Study population (1,022) was...
3.
[Homicide clusters and drug traffic in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil from 1995 to 1999]
Beato Filho C, Assuncao R, Silva B, Marinho F, Reis I, Almeida M
Cad Saude Publica . 2001 Oct; 17(5):1163-71. PMID: 11679891
The article presents a spatial analysis of homicides in Belo Horizonte according to the Minas Gerais Military Police records from 1995 to 1999. The authors identify clusters of high mortality...
4.
Diffusion and prediction of Leishmaniasis in a large metropolitan area in Brazil with a Bayesian space-time model
Assuncao R, Reis I, Oliveira C
Stat Med . 2001 Jul; 20(15):2319-35. PMID: 11468766
We present results from an analysis of human visceral Leishmaniasis cases based on public health records of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, from 1994 to 1997. The main emphasis in this study...
5.
A new proposal to adjust Moran's I for population density
Assuncao R, Reis E
Stat Med . 1999 Aug; 18(16):2147-62. PMID: 10441770
We analyse the effect of using prevalence rates based on populations with different sizes in the power of spatial independence tests. We compare the well known spatial correlation Moran's index...
6.
[Maps of epidemiological rates: a Bayesian approach]
Assuncao R, Barreto S, Guerra H, Sakurai E
Cad Saude Publica . 1999 Jan; 14(4):713-23. PMID: 9878904
This article presents statistical methods recently developed for the analysis of maps of disease rates when the geographic units have small populations at risk. They adopt the Bayesian approach and...
7.
Lifetime cost of human immunodeficiency virus-related health care
Hurley S, Kaldor J, Gardiner S, Carlin J, Assuncao R, Evans D
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol . 1996 Aug; 12(4):371-8. PMID: 8673546
Estimates of the lifetime cost of illnesses are needed for temporal and international comparisons and for assessment of the efficiency of prevention strategies. The goal of the present study was...