A relação do clima e a espacialização das doenças respiratórias em Chapecó/SC

Abstract

Humans are in constant contact with climate elements that get altered due to modifications resulting from the production of space,where climate directly influences human health conditions. In this sense, the current research’s goal is to analyze the relations between the urban space in Chapecó-SC, its climate, and the respiratory diseases that were registered there between 2008 and 2019. In order to do so, climate elements were analyzed (rainfall rates, minimum and maximum temperatures, and air’s relative humidity), respiratory diseases were studied and the areas where they occured the most were identified. All these processes were developed using data from the Informatics Department of the Brazilian Unified Health System (DATASUS), as well as meteorological data from the Oficial Meteorological Station of the National Meteorological Institute (INMET). In terms of methodology, the procedures involved the creation and classification of many charts and tables, as well as data collection and mapping from the Brazilian Postal Addressing Code (CEP). Results show that for the analyzed period, pneumonia was the most common disease observed in the studied area (50,8% of all hospitalization cases), and winter was the season in which the largest number of hospital admission cases regarding respiratory diseases were observed. Pneumonia affected mostly men (55,6%) and elderly people (34,2%), followed by children (29,7%). Although the largest neighborhoods reflect the highest absolute number of hospitalization cases, the neighborhoods that were identified by their socioeconomic differentiation (suburban and impoverished areas) were the ones that proportionally showed the highest number of hospital admission cases.