Fig 1.
Geographic location of the tri-border region of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
Table 1.
Socioeconomic information for the municipality of Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil.
Table 2.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the cases of leprosy in the tri-border region of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina (2003 to 2015).
Table 3.
Univariate Global Moran I and Bivariate Global Moran I results of the social determinants and the risk of illness due to leprosy in the tri-border region of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
Table 4.
Multivariate analysis from Weighted OLS regression of social determinants and their relationship with risk of Leprosy in the tri-border region of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
Fig 2.
Spatial mapping by geographically weighted regression (GWR) of social determinants and their relationship with the risk of leprosy within the tri-border region of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.
(A) Relative Risk, (B) Proportion of households with monthly nominal household income per capita greater than 1 minimum wage (INPC > 1), (C) Proportion of people of brown race (BRACE), (D) R2 Adjusted, (E) Coefficients β of proportion of households with monthly nominal household income per capita greater than 1 minimum wage (INPC > 1), (F) Coefficients β of proportion of people of brown race (BRACE).
Table 5.
Temporal trend of leprosy in in the tri-border region of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina (2003 to 2015).
Fig 3.
Temporal evolution of the detection rate of new cases of leprosy in the tri-border region of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina (2003 to 2015).