A relational study between government decrees and number of deaths by COVID-19 in Northeastern Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Assunção, Carla Simone de Lima Teixeira
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Assunção, Marcus Vinicius Dantas de, Sousa, Mariah Caroline Martins de, Oliveira, Rute Anadila Amorim de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/5550
• topic: Decretos estaduais; COVID-19; Metodologia; Ações governamentais.; Decretos estatales; COVID-19; Metodología; Acciones del gobierno.; State decrees; COVID-19; Methodology; Government actions.

Considering the threat to human life imposed by the pandemic of COVID-19 in Brazil, the present study aims to analyze governmental actions of social distancing of states in the Northeast region to confront COVID-19 in the light of state decrees and relative rates deaths in these states. To this end, a qualitative and quantitative methodology consisting of five stages was developed: (1) implementation of a method of relative effects; (2) analysis of the relative effects regarding the trends of deaths; (3) analysis of the decrees and development of variables; (4) analysis of the polar graph; and, (5) Comparison between the relative death rates of the states and the result presented by the polar graph. The main results assert a delay in restrictive measures by the governments of Ceará and Pernambuco, to the detriment of the measures adopted by most states in the Northeast region of Brazil.