Análise da relação entre internações por doenças respiratórias e variáveis meteorológicas em dois municípios da região das Missões, nos anos 2019 e 2020

Abstract

Weather and climatic conditions research and your relationship with human health have been increased in last years, trying to characterize certain diseases and to estimate future health impacts, unfavorable to human health. This study aims to analyze hospital admissions for respiratory disease in the cities São Borja and São Luiz Gonzaga, Missões region of Rio Grande do Sul state, during the years 2019 and 2020, and their relationship with weather variables. The variables of air temperature (T), relative humidity (RH) and wind speed (VV) were obteined through automatic meteorologic stations (INMET), Information on daily hospital admissions from the Database of the Ministry of Health (DATASUS) of the Ministry of Health. With these meteorologic data was calculated of the human thermal comfort (HTC) using the Tev index (when <26°C) and HI index (T <26°C). The organization, formatting, treatment and analysis of data was performed in a descriptive way, using Excel platform. The results showed that there seems to be a directly proportional relationship between HTC and respiratory diseases, insofar as when discomfort (cold or heat) increases, hospital admissions increase. However, due to the lowamount of hospitalizations data, the association is not as strong clear relationship to days of hospitar admission, after the change in weather conditions. Considering admissions by age group, there was a prevalence of hospitalizations of the elderly (>65), representing about 66%. When considering the higher number of females, preferably in a period in which there were records of more females (62%) and in a period in which there were records of “Moderate F” (CTH between 8 and 13°C) and “Slightly Cold” (CTH between 13 and 18°C). Finally, considering at least three hospitalizations, days with 9% that there is an “international phenomenon” (in 66% and 9% of cases).