Vigilância de doenças endêmicas em áreas urbanas: a interface entre mapas de setores censitários e indicadores de morbidade
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1999-03
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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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Health status indicators, Epidemiologic surveillance, Leprosy, Tuberculosis, Spatial distribution, Indicadores de saúde, Vigilância epidemiológica, Hanseníase, Tuberculose, Distribuição espacial
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XIMENES, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar et. al. Vigilância de doenças endêmicas em áreas urbanas: a interface entre mapas de setores censitários e indicadores de morbidade. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, v. 15, n. 1, p. 53-61, 1999.