Espaços urbanos saudáveis do Brasil e seus determinantes

Abstract

The Healthy City Project aims multidirectional joint efforts towards improving the quality of life in urban areas with a focus on public health. This dissertation considers health as a state of complete well-being, physical, mental and social, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. The present study contributes to the literature at least in three directions. First, Brazilian database provide an opportunity to exploit spatial heterogeneity, identifying spatial clusters in urban health indicator and Social Determinants of Health (SDH). Secondly, it is also possible to analyze changes in urban health conditions over time. Finally, the exercise proposed here also points out which of the social determinants of health are able to influence the urban health indicator. It is worth mentioned that the empirical approach adopted in this study is based on a Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) jointed with quantile comparisons. In this sense, to be considered as a healthy urban space, a spatial unit must possess the indicator of urban health in the first quartile in two consecutive years, one of them being compulsorily 2010 (possible healthy urban spaces), moreover, must have at least four of the DSS in better condition than possible average healthy urban spaces. The results are: i) the increasing randomness of healthy urban spaces, face public policies in Brazil are increasingly imprint location, ii) of the 1224 analyzed 149 urban spaces can be classified as possibly healthy; these, 55 are considered healthy iii) healthy urban spaces are concentrated in the South and Southeast, iv) the states of Acre, Roraima, Rondônia, Tocantins and Mato Grosso have no candidate to healthy urban space, v) policies to improve the quality of living in urban areas must be integrated and targeted mainly for the urban spaces of the North, Northeast and Midwest to correct local disparities.