Saúde e ambiente urbano: a relação de incidência de dengue e as desigualdades socioespaciais em Dourados-MS

Abstract

The work intends to based on the mapping of the cases of Dengue in the city of Dourados, MS, between the years 2007-2014, analyzing the geographic factors determining in the maintenance and proliferation of the disease. Therefore, we chose two neighborhoods of the city Jardim Novo Horizonte and the Parque Alvorada, are both located in the western portion of the city, with the objective of analyze the intraurban socio-spatial inequalities, from the town restructuring with the new urban area in 2011. The aim is to analyze the space, the factors involved (Socioeconomic and environmental) identifying aggravating factors (Biological and anthropic) the selectivity the areas of imposed by globalization (Technical), that is understanding the conditions that promote the incidence and disease worsening in these two neighborhoods that although near have different behaviors, both in the number of reported records, as well as in lethality and the type of mosquito breeding. The interviews applied to health professionals and locals allow the identification the degree of knowledge and information that the population has on the subject and that collective action such as the mobilization of society and information are most efficient in the development of health promotion practices. It is hoped by this methodological application contribute to knowledge on the relationship between the process health and disease, and the urban environment, revealing the inequalities as much in the health sector as with the environment and the territory used.