Analyzing Spatial Patterns of Health Vulnerability to Drought in the Brazilian Semiarid Region.

ABSTRACT: Health determinants might play an important role in shaping the impacts related to long-term disasters such as droughts. Understanding their distribution in populated dry regions may help to map vulnerabilities and set coping strategies for current and future threats to human health. The aim of the study was to identify the most vulnerable municipalities of the Brazilian semiarid region when it comes to the relationship between drought, health, and their determinants using a multidimensional index. From a place-based framework, epidemiological, socio-economic, rural, and health infrastructure data were obtained for 1135 municipalities in the Brazilian semiarid region. An exploratory factor analysis was used to reduce 32 variables to four independent factors and compute a Health Vulnerabili

SUBMITTER: Menezes JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8296049 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature