A análise espacial da correlação entre a incidência de casos da covid-19 e o acesso aos serviços de saneamento básico no município de Patos (PB).

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil caused changes in the country's social, economic and environmental contexts. In the health area, the provision of basic sanitation services has become essential to combat the proliferation of the virus. However, the pandemic situation exposes the precarious sanitation conditions that some Brazilian cities are in, perpetuating a possible health crisis. In this context, the present research aimed to spatially analyze the correlation between the incidence of Covid-19 cases and access to basic sanitation services in the urban area of the municipality of Patos (PB). The work is characterized as a descriptive and exploratory study, with a qualitative-quantitative approach. A bibliographic and documentary research was carried out, using as instruments the use of secondary data from the epidemiological bulletin of the Municipal Health Department of Patos (PB), the National Sanitation Information System (SNIS) and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE), in addition to the use of Excel and Qgis tools, on-site visits and photographic records. Soon, it was found that the entire population of the urban area had access to the water supply service. However, the impasses found in the sanitary sewage and urban solid waste (MSW) services have been causing unsanitary situations that tend to contribute to the spread of the virus and increase the health vulnerability of the population. In view of this, it was concluded that there was one and that the failures in the service of some sanitation services may have an indirect correlation with the growth of the incidence of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the urban area of the municipality of Patos (PB).