Estudo bioclimático de doenças respiratórias na Amazônia legal: casos de asma e pneumonia

Abstract

This work has as main objective to make a study of the number of occurrences of endemic outbreaks of asthma and pneumonia in nine major cities in the Brazilian Amazon, a series of 10 years. Correlating them with the meteorological variables temperatures (maximum and minimum), rainfall and relative humidity, in order to find some dependence between them. Therefore it is necessary to check whether there is a relationship of dependency. The results present different conditions for each situation of contagion of the two endemics, since the Amazon is an area of vast proportions and ends up being influenced differently in the localities discussed in this work. Asthma and showed significant correlations with the maximum and minimum temperatures, in the case of the municipality of Manaus -AM, the values were 80% and 65 % respectively. Already pneumonia showed significant correlations with the municipalities of Rio Branco - AC and Macapa - AP and some inverse correlations with relative humidity, -78 % in the city of Cuiaba eg. This study will serve as a precedent for the analysis of these two epidemics, a situation of epidemics. Thus being able to avoid waste of public funds and human losses.