Associação Canônica entre indicadores de infraestrutura de moradia e a incidência de doenças e mortalidade infantil para 2017

Abstract

This study aimed to verify the correlation between indicators of basic housing infrastructure conditions and public health indicators in Brazilian states in 2017. The methodology mainly consisted in the Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA). There were two statistically significant canonical correlations. The first one indicates that the canonical variables are determined both by the percentage of the urban population connected to water supply and the percentage of the urban population that has access to sewage treatment, a pair that carries positive coefficients, but also by the percentage of waste collection and the percentage of vulnerability to poverty, which one and the other hold negative coefficients. The second relevant correlation demonstrates that the most representative variables were the percentage of the population connected to water supply, the percentage of vulnerability to poverty, and the percentage of sewage treatment: the first two hold a positive coefficient and the latter a negative one. Results imply that Brazilian states that bear deficits in basic housing infrastructure and public health indicators are located in specific regions. Therefore, there is a direct association between said indicators and location. Lower Northern and Northeastern states display lower scores than Southern, Southeastern, and Midwestern states.