O papel do terapeuta ocupacional na hanseniase: atuacao no estado de Sao Paulo / The role of occupational therapist in leprosy: actuation in Sao Paulo state

O artigo trata da evolucao do papel do terapeuta ocupacional, no atendimento a pacientes hansenianos. No primeiro momento sao destacadas as atuacoes nos hospitais e ambulatorios especializados, com analise do tipo de intervencao realizada. No outro, sao analisadas as novas formas de atuacao nos Centros de Saude, com enfase na atencao primaria. O estudo foi completado com uma analise critica de um documento oficial que descreve as atribuicoes dos terapeutas ocupacionais nessa area.

[Control of the contacts: its interference on the epidemiological status of Hansen's disease]. / Controle dos comunicantes: sua interferéncia na situação epidemiológica da hanseníase.

The control situation of hanseniasis patients' contacts needs a deeper study which would show the reality in the public health centers and their consequence over the whole country. The increasing of the prevalence rate of the disease added to the bad social-economic conditions of the patients and contacts gave us subsidies to important studies to understand the present epidemiological picture. This research had the purpose of diagnosing the control situation of hanseniasis patients' contacts in a public health center which had, at the moment of this research (1983) 160 hanseniasis patients (incidence of 1.2/1000) and 757 contacts registered in a Subprogram of Hansen's Disease Control.

[Disability prevention in Hansen's disease: reality at a health service]. / Prevenção de incapacidades em hanseniase: realidade numa unidade sanitária.

In Hansen's disease, the third part of advanced incidences or non treated cases exhibit some patterns of physical incapacity, besides the prejudice and beliefs generated by deformities-which the patients may present if they do not get a correct treatment. Which basis on this problematical question of the disease a group of professionals composed of medical doctors, nurses, physical therapist, occupational therapist and social worker made a study of the incapacities of the Hansen's disease patients through a detailed physical exam. This study intended to identify sensory and motor injuries of the face, upper and lower limbs. This study also develops a research about the necessity to systematize the assistance given in a public health center.