COSTA, L. L.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3705065934874072; COSTA, Luciana de Luna.
Resumo:
Changes in the town urbanization process, temperature variations, and rain regime
have contributed to an increasing occurrence of dengue in most towns. The present work aims
to issue guidelines on control practices of diseases, verifying the distribution of ailments in
the suburbs of Campina Grande-PB, according to age, sex, race/color, and education together
with dengue correlations with air temperature and precipitation. The research was carried out
with autocthonous cases from that city in the 2001-2009 period. The city was subdivided into
four areas considering proximity to the suburbs whose dengue data were obtained from
records of Sistema de Agravo de Notificação of Secretaria Estadual de Saúde, 3º regional
sector, and the meteorological data furnished by the Unidade Acadêmica de Ciências
Atmosféricas. The socio-demographic data were directly and descriptively analyzed, making
simple correlations of dengue cases with meteorological variables. Cases of dengue mostly
occurred in the 2001-2003 years, remarkably decreasing as the Plano Nacional de Controle do
Dengue was implanted in 2004. Conceição in area I, Catolé in area II, and Acácio Figueiredo
in area III were the suburbs which presented the highest number of cases of the disease,
including Pedregal in area IV, which outstood with the highest number of cases in its sector
and in the town. Young and young-adult individuals were the age groups most affected by the
disease. The females were most infected in all the periods of the research, including the
mulatas, and individuals with incomplete fundamental education. A great number of
responses were given as “ignored.” April and May were the months with the highest number
of cases, coinciding with the beginning of the rain season in Campina Grande-PB. Yet, using
Pearson and Sparman´s correlation in the standardized data of maximum air temperature,
thermal amplitude, precipitation and dengue, we couldn´t detect any significant correlation.
From the physical and biological viewpoint, however, it is known that precipitation, mainly,
can directly or indirectly influence cases of dengue regardless of location, with much
interference from infrastructure and education of the municipality dwellers.