The urban environment from the health perspective
The case of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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This study aims to determine spatial patterns of mortality and morbidity for five health problems in an urban environment: homicides, adolescent pregnancy, asthma hospitalization, and two vector-borne diseases, dengue and visceral leishmaniasis. All events were obtained through the city health database and geoprocessed using residential addresses and 80 planning units consisting of census tracts. We used thematic maps, proportionate mortality/morbidity ratios by planning unit, and the overlapped rank of the 20th worse planning unit rates for each event. A spatial pattern of high rates of homicides, proportion of young mothers, and hospitalization due to asthma overlapped in socially and economically disadvantaged areas. For the two vector-borne diseases, high rates with great dispersion were found in underprivileged areas, in contrast with very low rates among higher income areas. The results indicated the coexistence of heavier disease burden for residents of urban areas where poverty and lack of effective public health policies may be modulating social health problems. For the two vector-borne diseases, an environmental intervention in one mosquito-borne disease might be playing a role in the other's incidence
Dengue fever · Economic growth · Environmental health · Geography · Poverty · Public health · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Unit (ring theory) · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Demography · Medicine · Mosquito-borne diseases and control · Psychology · Zoonotic diseases and public health
Dengue em três distritos sanitários de Belo Horizonte, Brasil
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Self-rated health and perceived violence in the neighborhood is heterogeneous between young women and men
Mortality from Homicides in Slums in the City of Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Homicídio de meninas e mulheres no Brasil de 2015 a 2019
Disaggregating health inequalities within Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002-2010, by applying an urban health inequality index
Urban upgrading and its impact on health
Saúde urbana
Padrão espacial e diferencial de renda dos domicílios de adolescentes e adultos jovens vítimas de traumatismo maxilofacial por agressão com arma de fogo
Urban Inequities; Urban Rights
Homicides and socio-environmental determinants of health in Brazil
Health Inequalities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tendência da mortalidade por homicídios em Belo Horizonte e região metropolitana
Variáveis socioeconômicas e a transmissão de dengue
Indicadores sócio-demográficos e a epidemia de dengue em 2002 no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Spatial modeling of dengue and socio-environmental indicators in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Distribuição espaço-temporal dos candidatos à doação de sangue da Fundação Hemominas, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil, nos anos de 1994 e 2004
Violence and social determinants of health in Brazil
Unidade de contexto e observação social sistemática em saúde
Urban health in developing countries
Urban health in developing countries
Fatores de risco para consultas em pronto-socorro por crianças asmáticas no Sul do Brasil
Epidemia de leishmaniose visceral no Estado do Piauí, Brasil, 1980-1986
Urbanização e ecologia do dengue
Spatial distribution of human and canine visceral leishmaniasis in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brasil, 1994-1997
Tendência temporal da mortalidade por homicídios na cidade de São Paulo, Brasil, 1979-1994
Geoprocessamento, ambiente e saúde
Perfil dos nascidos vivos no Município de Belo Horizonte, 1992-1994
Mortes perinatais evitáveis em Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil, 1999
Experiência de gravidez na adolescência, fatores associados e resultados perinatais entre puérperas de baixa renda
Violência social sob a perspectiva da saúde pública
Violência e morte
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