Vigilância de doenças endêmicas em áreas urbanas: a interface entre mapas de setores censitários e indicadores de morbidade

Cadernos de Saúde Pública

Ricardo Arraes De Alencar Ximenes²  Celina Maria Turchi Martelli¹  Wayner Vieira De Souza¹  Tiago Maria Lapa¹  Maria De Fátima Militão De Albuquerque¹  Ana Lúcia S. Sampaio De Andrade¹  Otaliba Libânio De Morais Neto¹  Simonne De Almeida E Silva¹  Maria Luiza Carvalho De Lima¹  José Luiz Portugal¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de PernambucoRecife PE ,Brasil

关键词: Epidemiologic Surveillance;    Leprosy;    Tuberculosis;    Spatial Distribution;    Health Status Indicators;    Vigilância Epidemiológica;    Hanseníase;    Tuberculose;    Distribuição Espacial;    Indicadores de Saúde;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-311X1999000100006

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In this article we discuss the methodological issues associated with the creation of a surveillance system for endemic diseases in urban areas based on analysis of populations at risk and on spatially referenced epidemiological indicators. We comment on the system's basic requirements, selection criteria for socioeconomic variables, and methodological steps to combine these variables so as to construct a census-based deprivation index. We also present the ways we solved some operational problems related to generation of digitized census tracts maps and linkage of morbidity data from different sources. This approach, spatial organization into account in surveillance of endemic diseases, exemplified here by tuberculosis and leprosy, allows for the interaction of several official data sets from census and health services in order to geographically discriminate inner-city risk strata. Criteria for constructing these risk strata were considered a useful tool for health planning and management activities for the control of endemic diseases in cities.

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