Mapeamento dos casos de dengue na cidade de Lavras-MG, no período de 2007 - 2010

Abstract

Dengue is a disease that is becoming a serious public health problem in recent years. The sick person may have mild symptoms of the disease or the most severe form, dengue hemorrhagic fever that is, which in some cases may lead the patient to death. It is the most important arboviral disease affecting humans. It is estimated that 2.5 billion people are at risk of contracting the disease, there may be 50 million dengue infections worldwide every year. According to the Health Department of Lavras, by the year 2006 there were only reported imported cases of the disease. From 2007 it appeared the first confirmed cases in the city. The objective of this study was to use statistical techniques, comprising both, spatial and spatio-temporal analyses of the number of dengue cases in Lavras - MG, in the period 2007 to 2010. During this period, 1236 cases were reported, taking in to consideration 91 local neighborhoods. The year 2010 had the highest cases record, reaching 714. In this connection, the TerraView software generated thematic maps, maps of incidence, and estimation of indices of global and local Moran. Whereas, the spatial analysis and spatio-temporal were obtained with the aid of SaTScan software. The results obtained in each analysis identified the areas most at risk of outbreak, highlighting among the neighborhoods analyzed, Água Limpa and Jardim Glória who appeared more frequently. Thus, these city neighborhoods identified in the analysis deserve more attention from community health workers to combat the vector, strengthening the public awareness campaigns and also the elimination of breeding sites.