Visão da população do Município de São Paulo quanto à ocorrência da hanseníase e seu comportamento para a prevenção

Introduction - The research work had as objective to evaluate the information and the know-
ledge of the population of the city of Sao Paulo, in relation to leprosy and how much our society is
devoid in terms of preventive campaigns. Materials and Methods - For the attainment of the information was applied a questionnaire composed by eight objective questions previously confectioned for the collection of data. Results - Can be perceive, in clear and concise way, through the research that the interviewed people know that leprosy is a contagious "infectum" disease, that the transmission occurs through the respiratory system, however they are unaware of the way of transmission, symptoms and treatment of the disease. Conclusion-With the results obtained throughout our research, can be conclude that the interviewed people still possess a lack of information in relation to the disease.