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| Author(s): |
Maria Aparecida Vedovato
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Ciências Médicas |
| Defense date: | 2009-02-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Roberto Wagner Lourenço;
Christovam Barcellos;
Carlos Roberto Silveira Corrêa
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| Advisor: | Roberto Wagner Lourenço; Maria Rita Donalisio Cordeiro |
| Abstract | |
The child mortality in urban populations is of great importance for the policies of public health. An exploratory and ecological study using spatial data was carried out aiming to contribute for the understanding of the contextual causes of child mortality considering the territorial distribution of the events. This paper presents the results obtained in the spatial and statistical analysis carried out through geoprocessing techniques considering neonatal mortality, mortality of children up to one year old and stillbirths between 2000 and 2007 as well as the construction of coefficients considering the areas serviced by health centers in the urban area of Rio Claro, São Paulo state, Brazil. During the studied period spatial and temporal tendencies of the distribution of child mortality and stillbirths could be identified in the urban setting and were irregularly spread over the studied area with large oscillation in the data and, although they showed a positive correlation with the social and environmental variables this correlation was little significant. The most significant correlation was between the stillbirths between coefficient and the social environmental quality index which showed the higher Pearson statistical correlation linear value (r=0.2733) turning out to be influential in CM. It is expected that the study can help in the understanding of health hazards determiners and in the implementation of administrative programs of several sectors in the urban areas, including the health sector (AU) | |