ANÁLISE SÓCIO-ESPACIAL DAS DOENÇAS RELACIONADAS AO SANEAMENTO AMBIENTAL NOS MUNICÍPIOS FLUMINENSES

Abstract

The uneven distribution of sanitation infrastructure in Brazilian municipalities causes the proliferation of certain diseases to affect population groups differently. This paper aims to analyze the relationship between sanitation and environmental health conditions in the Rio de Janeiro state from 2007 to 2014. For this purpose, sanitation indicators from the 2010 Demographic Census were used, related to the infrastructure conditions of permanent private households served by water supply, sanitation and garbage collection. Data on diseases caused by the lack of environmental sanitation, such as dengue and hepatitis, were obtained at DATASUS. Geoprocessing, descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis techniques were applied. It was verified that dengue had a greater number of cases than hepatitis, though the number of cases of the first showed an interannual fluctuation, while the hepatitis occurrences tended to increase during the studied period. Dengue and Hepatitis occurrences showed a greater correlation with the average household income, Recebido em: 13/05/2020 Aceito para publicação em: 09/11/2020. Análise sócio-espacial das doenças relacionadas ao saneamento ambiental nos municípios Fluminenses Maria Clara Gonçalves Arouca Julia Celia Mercedes Strauch Cristiane Nunes Francisco DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/Hygeia16054730 Hygeia v.16 p. 299 313, 2020 página 300 while hepatitis occurrence also showed a correlation with the permanent private households with septic tanks. Finally, it is concluded that with the methodological procedures used here, it was possible to understand the spatial distribution of the diseases and their relationship with the social and sanitation indicators. In this way, they can give support in the mapping of health risk and, thus, in the adoption of public health policies.