Avaliação da distribuição espacial da malária e da leishmaniose tegumentar no município de Tomé-Açu/PA

Abstract

The municipality of Tomé-Açu/PA has development geared to wards agriculture, but as a result of deforestation and the city's growth, the population has become susceptible to contact with vectors of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (IPDs). Due to insufficient information on the spatial distribution of the occurrence of DIPs in the mesoregion of northeastern Pará and the possibility of new information that contributes to the environmental management of municipalities, this work seeks to map the spatial distribution of 2008 and 2018 on the cases registered in the municipality. It is, therefore, a quantitative and qualitative research that correlates the Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Malaria IPDs with deforestation. The data were obtained from the municipality's health secretary to obtain the places where the diseases occurred. After the data import procedure, the Kernel Density estimator and the Global Moran Index were applied to generate maps for 2008 and 2018 that show the different densities of the phenomena and the areas of greatest epidemiological risk, where the use and occupation of the are predominant factors for the epidemic of IPDs in the region due to human occupation in the vicinity of newly deforested areas. According to the numbers of registered cases, Cutaneous Leishmania is was the disease with the highest incidence in the years 2008 and 2018. However, Malaria predominated in the rural area in 2008. It is concluded that the methodology used can contribuited the understanding from where surveillance and control actions for the population's health could be intensified.