Internações por doenças do aparelho circulatório em idosos e suas relações com o campo térmico urbano de duas cidades paraibanas

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Daniel da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9178
• topic: Internação; Doenças Cardiovasculares; Meio Ambiente; Temperatura; Hospitalization; Cardiovascular Diseases; Environment; Temperature; CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ECOLOGIA

This study aimed to determine the incidence of hospitalizations for Diseases of the Circulatory System (DCS) in the elderly population in two Paraíba cities: Patos and Joao Pessoa, taking into account the conditions of the urban climate, specifically the thermal field. After literature on the theme, the survey was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, we evaluated the behavior of the variables temperature and relative humidity of the two cities in question, taking account of climatological data from Weather Stations Officials from the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET), from January 2005 to December 2014. From these data, it calculated the Index of Thermal Discomfort (IDT) for the study areas according to Thom (1959). In the second stage of the study, a retrospective documentary research was done with a quantitative approach, the universe of admissions for DCS of the elderly, occurring in Patos and João Pessoa-PB. The data were obtained from the SUS Department of Information (DATASUS) for the same period, from January 2005 to December 2014. To evaluate the relationship between hospital admissions of elderly DCS and its relationship with the urban thermal field of the two cities surveyed. They were made statistical correlations and tests applying the linear correlation coefficient of Pearson. The same coefficient was used to verify correlation between the IDT and the DCS for the two cities. The study found that hospitalizations of elderly DCS established relationship with the variables of urban thermal field in the two cities, and that this relationship varies from weak to moderate depending on the type of variable, the climatic period, dry or rainy, or city. Also (if found) it was found that the incidence of elderly hospitalizations DCS is influenced by the urban climate of the two cities and the percentage of hospitalizations varies from one city to another depending on the thermal discomfort range. The study showed that for understanding the relationship between the urban thermal field and the incidence rates of elderly hospitalizations for Diseases of the Circulatory System in both cities investigated becomes essential to narrowing between climatologists and health professionals.