Mapping of health problems: an application of the georeferencing technique using the Google Earth software
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https://doi.org/10.37497/ijhmreview.v5i2.162Keywords:
Georeferencing, Mapping, Collective Health.Abstract
The use of technologies are increasingly present in the health services, either in the patient care or in the processes of health system management. Among the technologies, geoprocessing stands out as a management tool by allowing the analysis of the spatial distribution of a given health problem in a territory, allowing actions to be directed and executed with greater effectiveness and assertiveness. To exemplify the use of this technique, we have mapped cases of tuberculosis, syphilis in pregnant women and congenital syphilis reported in the years 2016 and 2017 in 7 Basic Units of Health of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, with the help of the batchgeo website and the georeferencing software Google Earth Pro The results allowed to observe the spatial distribution of the reported cases, indicating where there are more or less occurrences of certain diseases, as well as the presence of reports of patients classified as outside the area covered by the health units. It is concluded that geoprocessing is an excellent tool for the management and analysis of the territory by identifying the areas of occurrence of certain diseases and to evaluate the origin of the patients attended by the health service.
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