TY - JOUR
KW - Brazil
KW - Censuses
KW - Data Collection
KW - Endemic Diseases
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Population Surveillance
KW - Risk Factors
KW - Socioeconomic Factors
KW - Tuberculosis
KW - Urban Population
AU - Ximenes R A
AU - Martelli C M
AU - Souza W V
AU - Lapa T M
AU - Albuquerque M
AU - Andrade A L
AU - Morais Neto O L
AU - Silva S A
AU - Lima M L
AU - Portugal J L
AB - <p>In this article we discuss the methodological issues associated with the creation of a surveillance system for endemic diseases in urban areas based on analysis of populations at risk and on spatially referenced epidemiological indicators. We comment on the system's basic requirements, selection criteria for socioeconomic variables, and methodological steps to combine these variables so as to construct a census-based deprivation index. We also present the ways we solved some operational problems related to generation of digitized census tracts maps and linkage of morbidity data from different sources. This approach, spatial organization into account in surveillance of endemic diseases, exemplified here by tuberculosis and leprosy, allows for the interaction of several official data sets from census and health services in order to geographically discriminate inner-city risk strata. Criteria for constructing these risk strata were considered a useful tool for health planning and management activities for the control of endemic diseases in cities.</p>
BT - Cadernos de saude publica
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10203446?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1999 Jan-Mar
DO - 10.1590/s0102-311x1999000100006
IS - 1
J2 - Cad Saude Publica
LA - por
N2 - <p>In this article we discuss the methodological issues associated with the creation of a surveillance system for endemic diseases in urban areas based on analysis of populations at risk and on spatially referenced epidemiological indicators. We comment on the system's basic requirements, selection criteria for socioeconomic variables, and methodological steps to combine these variables so as to construct a census-based deprivation index. We also present the ways we solved some operational problems related to generation of digitized census tracts maps and linkage of morbidity data from different sources. This approach, spatial organization into account in surveillance of endemic diseases, exemplified here by tuberculosis and leprosy, allows for the interaction of several official data sets from census and health services in order to geographically discriminate inner-city risk strata. Criteria for constructing these risk strata were considered a useful tool for health planning and management activities for the control of endemic diseases in cities.</p>
PY - 1999
SP - 53
EP - 61
T2 - Cadernos de saude publica
TI - [Surveillance of endemic diseases in urban areas: the interface between census tract maps and morbidity data].
TT - Vigilância de doenças endêmicas em áreas urbanas: a interface entre mapas de setores censitários e indicadores de morbidade 
UR - http://www.scielo.br/pdf/csp/v15n1/0035.pdf
VL - 15
SN - 0102-311X
ER -