Analysis of the space and dengue: re-emergency and technical scientific informational environment

• Grant number: 08/07502-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2010
• End date: September 30, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Raul Borges Guimarães
• Grantee: Rafael de Castro Catão
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The several socio-spatial transformations brought by the uneven expansion and consolidation of the technical-scientific-information environment since the Second World War had an effect in the whole world. Due to these transformations, dengue has changed to adapt to this new environment. The disease's etiological agent is a virus, and the main vector is an urban mosquito with preference of human blood and extremely adapt to the social space. The perverse way that the growth of cities occurred, in both, number and size, the intense and fast flow of peoples and goods and the degradation of public health in whole world contributed to make that this disease became pandemic worldwide in the middle of the twenty century. In Brazil, it returns sixty years after been eradicated, causing many problems and the death of several people. The work hypothesis is that distribution and incidence of dengue was, and still is been affecting by socio-spatial transformations brought by the uneven consolidation of the actual environment, that has provided it's re-emergency in national territory. The main objective is to analyze the re-emergency of dengue in Brazil and its relations with the socio-spatial changes brought by the uneven expansion of the technical-scientific-information environment and the globalization's process in the country, comparing several territorial scales. Key-words: Geography of Health; production of space; technical-scientific-information environment; dengue.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CATÃO, Rafael de Castro. Dengue no Brasil: abordagem geográfica na escala nacional. 2011. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente Presidente Prudente.