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

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.

Contributions of municipal vulnerability map of the population of the state of Maranhão (Brazil) to the sustainable development goals.

Human vulnerability represents an open field of study that allows us, through the use of indicators, to measure a territory's weakness and potential for dealing with negative climate impacts. This kind of assessment is important within the scope of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially as a tool that is able to direct the strategies and planning in countries in the context of regional climate change (SDG 13.2).

Evaluation matrix for health promotion programs in socially vulnerable territories.

Health promotion has a set of strategies for advancing health and reducing inequalities. However, evaluating the effectiveness of health promotion programs has been a challenge. This paper shows the development and application of the Evaluation Matrix, constructed with qualitative-quantitative and multidimensional indicators supported by public policies targeting socially vulnerable territories.

Socioenvironmental conditions and intestinal parasitic infections in Brazilian urban slums: a cross-sectional study.

Methods: A cross-sectional study covering an agglomeration of urban slums was conducted between 2015 and 2016 using participants observation, a socioeconomic survey, and the spontaneous sedimentation method with three slides per sample to analyze fresh stool specimens ( n =595) searching for intestinal parasites.

Results: Endolimax nana ( n =95, 16.0%) and Entamoeba coli ( n =65, 10.

[Economic evaluation of cases of dengue fever attributed to the disaster of 2011 in Nova Friburgo (State of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil)].

The prospects outlined in climate scenarios produced for Brazil indicate a probable increase in the number of extreme hydrometeorological events in the coming years. Therefore, a study of the health scourges that may intensify due to these events is important. The scope of this article is to estimate the cost represented by the cases of dengue fever attributed to the 2011 disaster in Nova Friburgo (RJ).

Social cost of leptospirosis cases attributed to the 2011 disaster striking Nova Friburgo, Brazil.

The aim of this study was to estimate the social cost of the leptospirosis cases that were attributed to the natural disaster of January 2011 in Nova Friburgo (State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) through a partial economic assessment. This study utilized secondary data supplied by the Municipal Health Foundation of Nova Friburgo. Income scenarios based on the national and state minimum wages and on average income of the local population were employed.

[Environmental management in the public sector: a question of social and economic relevancy].

Discussing the need to implement an environmental management system in civil service entities, this paper offers a brief description of some management practices used by companies in various sectors that are endeavoring to establish the best possible relationships between business activities, environmental issues and human needs, today and in the future. Some economic arguments are presented, including the benefits obtained by private sector companies adopting eco-efficiency criteria that are in themselves sufficient to justify the implementation of an effective environmental management policy in government institutions. The relevance is also stressed of drawing up the Civil Service Environment Agenda (A3P), striving to introduce a new cultural approach that will mobilize civil servants in order to optimize resources, combating waste and encouraging better work environments.