EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF POPULATION WITH TUBERCULOSIS IN THE STATES OF RIO DE JANEIRO

Objective: To identify the epidemiological profile of the population with tuberculosis in the state of Rio de Janeiro in 2014 and to make a survey of deaths due to this pathology. Method: An ecological study that analyzed tuberculosis deaths and the profile of this population. Used data from the IBGE, Information Systems on Mortality and Aggravation Notification. Results: in the state of Rio de Janeiro in 2014, there were 12,968 confirmed cases of tuberculosis. The highest proportion in the age group of 20 to 39 years, brown, male, schooling between the fifth and eighth year of elementary education and another portion among the illiterate. There were 848 deaths due to tuberculosis, with the highest proportion of unmarried individuals, 35 and 54 years old, male and brown. Conclusion: tuberculosis presents itself as a serious public health problem and at the same time a major social problem because it is directly associated with poverty.