Aspectos socioculturais, aspectos biomédicos e educação em saúde da tuberculose: uma revisão

Abstract

Tuberculosis is a disease that still affects many people worldwide. Even though there are treatments for it, it is still a recurrent disease, which is aggravated even more because the population does not have adequate knowledge about it. Given this, this study, based on a review on tuberculosis, aimed to collect historical data on the sociocultural aspects of tuberculosis, seeking to understand how it has been acting in the last decades, and consequently to understand its biomedical aspects, as well as the treatment and prevention of TB, and associated with this, highlight the importance of health education, since it becomes a very important source of primary prevention, because only with knowledge about the subject will it be possible to prevení and adhere to treatment without being affected by the abandonment of it.