Geociências na gestão da saúde municipal: criação de uma plataforma unificada das unidades de saúde de Maceió-AL, para gerenciamento, análise e consulta com ênfase à pandemia da covid-19

Abstract

Geoinformation is a key part in front of spatial solutions, be it of any nature. The science of where it has been present since the beginning. In general, spatial analysis is at the forefront of any mission, whether as a mapping to discover enemy territory in a war, or in the great navigations and discoveries of new territories. In the health area it is no different, either through applications that spatially indicate dengue outbreaks, a map of care provided by community agents. In view of the pandemic that plagues humanity, the lack of knowledge of geospatial data delays actions to control the spread of the virus, in the sense of mapping and closing borders, territorial displacement of the virus, among other georeferenced information. In view of the lack of easily accessible and centralized information, the present work proposed the creation of a unified platform of health centers in Maceió – Alagoas, for management, analysis and consultation with emphasis on the pandemic of COVID-19, in dashboard format, aiming to assist in the pandemic scenario and minimize the lack of available geoinformation in an easy and accessible way. In this way, were collected data of location, care and occupation of the health centers that are or were facing the disease. For this collection, they were used as official sources of health information in the state and county. These data were compiled and using the Operations Dashboards for ArcGIS tool, made available by the company Environmental Systems Research Institute - ESRI, a display was made containing a mapping and presentation of the data alluding to COVID-19 of the health centers in Maceió. The display was available until December 2020, the term of the tool's license, obtained through a partnership between the Federal University of Alagoas and Imagem, the official distributor of ESRI products in Brazil.