Saúde e ambiente: contribuições para análise da dengue no município de São Luís, Maranhão

Abstract

Many endemic diseases in Brazil still are neglected, among these, is found the dengue fever that require scientific knowledge with looks more holistic for comprehension of your dynamic, in particular because the annual dengue surges, in each epidemiologic cycle, intensify. In the ambit of the health geography, is matter the analysis of the implications of the environment on dengue development. Is known, than the favorable conditions to the reproduction and dispersion of the Aedes aegypti are the elevated temperatures, concentrated and intermittent rains, although the population of this mosquito may keep itself from semi permanent breeding sites and independent of rains (water box, cisterns and others). In this scenario, is found the São Luís city, because are various the alterations that has been occurring from of a propitious space to the dengue development. This way, is questioned the relation among the environmental conditionings and the dengue fever at the urban area of the São Luís municipality, because it starts from the hypothesis than this relation exists. This etude is supported on the systemic analysis and in approaches of the social environmental geography. The study period comprehenses the years of 2012 to 2015. Were used informations of dengue cases by urban neighborhoods, building infestation index, waters supplying indicators, rubbish and open sewage collecting indicators through secondary data of 2010 cense and meteorological data on INMET. On geoprocessing were used softwares Google Earth Pro®, ArcGis 10.1® e QGis 2.0®. Was concluded that the seasonality of the dengue cases the building infestation index are associated to the rainfall variability, however the environmental sanitation also contributes to the maintaining of the dengue on city, proportioning risk and vulnerability situations in every year.