The international view of envenoming in Brazil: myths and realities
Being distant from Brazil's great natural diversity, from its long tradition in the study of snakebites and from the fact that it is one of the few countries which has a national information system for monitoring incidents involving venomous animals, non-Brazilian researchers face risks when es...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:cd3acd397f9846b5b93038ded86222b4 2023-05-15T15:06:28+02:00 The international view of envenoming in Brazil: myths and realities Rosany Bochner 2013-11-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1186/1678-9199-19-29 https://doaj.org/article/cd3acd397f9846b5b93038ded86222b4 EN eng SciELO http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992013000100205&lng=en&tlng=en https://doaj.org/toc/1678-9199 1678-9199 doi:10.1186/1678-9199-19-29 https://doaj.org/article/cd3acd397f9846b5b93038ded86222b4 Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, Vol 19, Iss 0, Pp 1-22 (2013) Incidence Snakebites Scorpionism Epidemiology Information systems Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Toxicology. Poisons RA1190-1270 Zoology QL1-991 article 2013 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1186/1678-9199-19-29 2022-12-31T00:11:44Z Being distant from Brazil's great natural diversity, from its long tradition in the study of snakebites and from the fact that it is one of the few countries which has a national information system for monitoring incidents involving venomous animals, non-Brazilian researchers face risks when estimating the incidence of these accidents in the country. The present work offers a critical review of the main estimates undertaken since 1954. It is interesting to note contradictions between textual and graphic information within the same article, variations over time in the work of a same researcher and differences among distinct authors, and that all these issues remain unmentioned or undiscussed. Comparison among such estimates and the data available at the Brazilian Information System on Diseases of Compulsory Declaration (Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação - SINAN) creates an opportunity to identify the degree of imprecision present in those articles, and draws attention to the need for the production of studies at both the regional and national levels, based on concrete data collected at national, state and municipal levels, which has been available on the internet since 2001. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases 19 1 29 |
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Being distant from Brazil's great natural diversity, from its long tradition in the study of snakebites and from the fact that it is one of the few countries which has a national information system for monitoring incidents involving venomous animals, non-Brazilian researchers face risks when estimating the incidence of these accidents in the country. The present work offers a critical review of the main estimates undertaken since 1954. It is interesting to note contradictions between textual and graphic information within the same article, variations over time in the work of a same researcher and differences among distinct authors, and that all these issues remain unmentioned or undiscussed. Comparison among such estimates and the data available at the Brazilian Information System on Diseases of Compulsory Declaration (Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação - SINAN) creates an opportunity to identify the degree of imprecision present in those articles, and draws attention to the need for the production of studies at both the regional and national levels, based on concrete data collected at national, state and municipal levels, which has been available on the internet since 2001. |
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