Urban Climate and Health: Correlation between Climatic Elements, PM10 and Mortality in Presidente Prudente (SP) and Santiago (Chile)

• Grant number: 24/22981-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: April 01, 2025
• End date: August 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Physical Geography
• Principal Investigator: Margarete Cristiane de Costa Trindade Amorim
• Grantee: William Miyakava
• Supervisor: Pamela Elisa Smith Guerra
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Associated to the scholarship: 23/09950-3 - Urban climate and health: analysis of the correlation between climatic elements, PM10 concentration and respiratory diseases in Presidente Prudente (SP), BP.MS

Abstract

The production of urban space is capable of altering the mechanisms and properties of the local climate, with the transformation of nature in the midst of human needs being an indissociable process. These alterations compose, for the most part, the framework of threats to public health through climatic phenomena. These relate directly to the concentration of inhalable particulate matter (PM10), affecting the quality of life of the population. Thus, atmospheric pollution emerges as one of the main challenges of the contemporary globalized world, given that cities constitute themselves as the main living space of humanity. In this perspective, national and international studies correlate climatic elements to the concentration or dispersion of PM10 and its influence on public health. In this way, it is essential to develop research that fosters urban planning under the perspective of the benefit to life in all its fullness, since the urban climate has become a commodity from social constructions. Therefore, this project aims to analyze the correlation of PM10, climatic elements, and mortality due to respiratory diseases (RD) between a medium-sized city - Presidente Prudente (SP) and a large city - Santiago (Chile). In view of the aforementioned, integrated analyses of the results obtained through statistical methodological procedures will be carried out, which will allow the construction of graphs and tables that demonstrate their spatial and temporal distribution and their association with vulnerability due to RD resulting from the concentrated exposure to PM10.