Abstract

INTRODUCTION:

Currently, dengue fever, chikungunya fever, and zika virus represent serious public health issues in Brazil, despite efforts to control the vector, the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

METHODS:

This was a descriptive and ecological study of dengue deaths occurring from 2002 to 2013 in São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil. Geoprocessing software was used to draw maps, linking the geo-referenced deaths with urban/social data at census tract level.

RESULTS:

There were 74 deaths, concentrated in areas of social vulnerability.

CONCLUSIONS:

The use of geo-technology tools pointed to a concentration of dengue deaths in specific intra-urban areas.

Ler artigo

SILVA, M. S. ; BRANCO, M. R. F. C. ; AQUINO JUNIOR, J. ; QUEIROZ, R. C. S. ; BANI, E. ; MOREIRA, E. P. B. ; MEDEIROS, M. N. L. ; Rodrigues ZMR . Spatial-temporal analysis of dengue deaths: identifying social vulnerabilities. Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical. Revista, v. 50, p. 104-109, 2017.

Publicação

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Print version ISSN 0037-8682On-line version ISSN 1678-9849

Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. vol.50 no.1 Uberaba Jan./Feb. 2017

https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0272-2016

Palavras-chave

  • Aedes/virology
  • Animals
  • Brazil/epidemiology
  • Dengue/mortality
  • Dengue/virology
  • Dengue Virus/genetics
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Insect Vectors/virology
  • Male
  • Spatio-Temporal Analysis
  • Urban Population
  • Vulnerable Populations

Autores

  • Maria do Socorro da Silva
  • Maria dos Remédios Freitas Carvalho Branco
  • José Aquino Junior
  • Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz
  • Emanuele Bani
  • Emnielle Pinto Borges Moreira
  • Maria Nilza Lima Medeiros
  • Zulimar Márita Ribeiro Rodrigues