Urban climate and health: analysis of the correlation between climatic elements, PM10 concentration and respiratory diseases in Presidente Prudente (SP)

• Grant number: 23/09950-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: February 01, 2024
• Status: Discontinued
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Physical Geography
• Principal Investigator: Margarete Cristiane de Costa Trindade Amorim
• Grantee: William Miyakava
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/22981-8 - Urban Climate and Health: Correlation between Climatic Elements, PM10 and Mortality in Presidente Prudente (SP) and Santiago (Chile), BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The production of space, especially urban space, is capable of altering the mechanisms and properties of the local climate. The transformation of nature in the midst of human needs, it is an inseparable process. These effects can affect the quality of life and health of the population, since most people, on a national and planetary scale, live in cities. Thus, there is an urgent need for studies that involve different urban realities and that value the benefit of life in all its fullness. Thus, studies of urban climate related to health stand out within Geography, when thinking about people's health associated with the environment and realities in which they live there. The national and international literature relate the atmospheric climatic elements (relative humidity, precipitation and wind) to the effects of dispersion or the highest concentration of pollutants, which are an imminent threat to public health, as they are capable of harming human health, especially the respiratory system. In this perspective, the present project aims to identify and analyse the correlation between the performance of climatic elements, concentration of inhalable particulate matter (PM10) and cases of hospitalisation for respiratory diseases (ARD) in Presidente Prudente (SP). It is assumed that urban environments related to the dynamics of winds along with the seasonality of precipitation, in periods of drought, concentrate a higher percentage of PM10, enabling the occurrence or intensification of respiratory diseases. Therefore, graphs and tables will be obtained as products, which express the accumulation or dispersion of pollutants in the midst of atmospheric dynamics together with the relative risk, as well as the synthesis of the correlation of the factors, mentioned above, in the verification of the most vulnerable populations in health - through the risk of illness by ARD, resulting from concentrated exposure to PM10.