Spatial Analysis of Mortality by Cardiovascular Disease in the Adult Population: A Study for Brazilian Micro-Regions Between 1996 and 2015

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the most serious health issues and the leading cause of death worldwide in both developed and developing countries, including Brazil. However, CVD mortality rates are not uniformly distributed across the country. Brazil is marked by important regional differenc...

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Published in:Spatial demography 2019-04, Vol.7 (1), p.83-101
Main Authors: Baptista, Emerson Augusto, Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular diseases
Demography
Developing countries
Fatalities
Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
Geography
Health
Health care
Health care access
Heterogeneity
Humanities
Law
LDCs
Mortality
Norms
Population studies
Sex
Social Sciences
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomics
Spatial analysis
Spatial distribution
Statistics for Social Sciences
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Summary:Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the most serious health issues and the leading cause of death worldwide in both developed and developing countries, including Brazil. However, CVD mortality rates are not uniformly distributed across the country. Brazil is marked by important regional differences resulting from socioeconomic inequality and limited access to health services. Mortality varies in a number of dimensions including age, sex, race, socioeconomic status, educational level and geography/space. Geographic inequalities in mortality in Brazil appear to be greater than other countries in Latin America. Given the spatial distribution of causes and heterogeneity of deaths from cardiovascular disease in Brazil, both at macro and micro levels, the goal of this paper is to evaluate the spatial patterns of deaths from CVD in the adult population (over 30 years of age), by sex, in Brazilian micro-regions from 1996 to 2015. Our main contribution was to study an important cause of death in small areas (micro-regions), taking into consideration space, as a proxy of socioeconomic conditions, access to health care and social norms that might affect CVD, as an important variable to understand changes in the CVD mortality.
ISSN:2364-2289
2164-7070
DOI:10.1007/s40980-019-00050-6