Dengue is considered one of the diseases with the most significant rates in Brazil. The increasing rates directly affect public health services, so that evaluating the environmental and social conditions in areas with high rates of the disease can assist in the development of diagnoses and health actions. In this sense, the objective of this study was to identify the most important socioeconomic variables for t...
Objective: to verify the relationship between leprosy and geographic space, taking into account social determinants of health and using a tool that allows the analysis of these relationships locally. Methodology: Ecological study, carried out in an endemic city in southern Brazil. The geocoding of the cases was conducted and socioeconomic variables of interest were selected. After descriptive analysis, we follo...
Dentre os modelos de pesquisa interdisciplinares atuais, estão as proposições de indicadores em saúde como instrumento para o planejamento de ações. Alguns modelos propõem o estabelecimento de variáveis mais preditivas a partir da modelagem knowledge-driven enquanto outros buscam recursos em modelos data-driven. Neste sentindo o objetivo desta pesquisa foi comparar dois modelos de Índice de Vulnerabilidade de S...