REGIONAL ASPECTS IN DIFFUSION OF COVID-19 IN THE URBAN NETWORK OF IMMEDIATE GEOGRAPHIC REGION OF SÃO JOÃO DOS PATOS, MARANHÃO, BRAZIL

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Allison Bezerra
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Santos, Ricardo Felipe dos, Silva, Ligia Mikaelly dos Reis
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hygeia (Uberlândia)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/hygeia/article/view/68930
• topic: SARS-CoV-2; Região geográfica; Serviços de saúde; SARS-CoV-2; Geographic region; Health services

This article aims to understand the dynamics of diffusion of Covid-19 in the urban network of the Immediate Geographic Region of São João dos Patos (RGISJP), Maranhão, Brazil. The analysis period considers one year of pandemic, to be counted from the first case of the disease in Maranhão (March 20, 2020 to March 20, 2021). This is an empirical spatial analysis, anchored in the systematization of secondary and public data, followed by a qualitative examination of the polarization and urban influence in the geographic distribution of cases.The offer of medical-hospital equipment, facilities and medical specialists is considered as the main drivers in the search for Covid-19 care in the urban network of such municipalities. As main sources for this research, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the State Department of Health (SES-MA) and the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System (DATASUS) were used through Tabwin, using the Ambulatory and Hospital Information Systems of SUS as well as the National Health Registry (CNES). The data point to the rarefied and concentrated supply of medical-hospital services, and the main urban center (São João dos Patos) does not have so much prominence in the offer of these services, which, consequently, drives more population flows, expanding the contagion network to other municipalities in the region and increasing the rate of contamination and deaths from the new coronavirus in centers that concentrate health services.