Spatial analysis of cervical cancer cases in elderly women in the Brazilian northeast of 2010 to 2013
International Journal of Development Research
Spatial analysis of cervical cancer cases in elderly women in the Brazilian northeast of 2010 to 2013
Received 17th November, 2018; Received in revised form 14th December, 2018; Accepted 19th January, 2019; Published online 28th February, 2019.
Copyright © 2019, Pabline Medeiros Verzaro et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To identify the spatial distribution of the number of cases of elderly women with cervical cancer in the city of. Using the variables income and schooling of the last census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Methods: The population was composed of 238 elderly women, using the Health Information System of the Hospital Registry of Cancer (SIS-RHC) of the Aldenora Bello Cancer Hospital. For spatial distribution of cases of cervical cancer, spatialization of the number of cases by neighborhoods and socioeconomic variables - income and schooling - by the census tract of São Luís through the ArcGis 10.1 software was performed.
