FROM TROPICALITY TO SOCIAL ISSUES: DENGUE IN THE CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ (2008 - 2016).
climate and dengue fever, urban climate, health geography.
This study aims to analyze the relation between the climatic behavior of the city of Rio de Janeiro / RJ and the occurrence of dengue fever cases registered each year, between 2008 and 2016, for the neighborhoods of Santa Cruz and Copacabana, located in the West and South Zones, respectively. In the aspect of climatic data, the research takes as analysis on the temperature and the rainfall and performing the correlation with the cases of dengue fever for the quarter of greater concentration of cases for each year studied. In the scope of social scale, the data of collection of garbage, sewage service and water supply were analyzed. Thus, it was concluded that during most of the analyzed period, autumn was the season with the highest concentration of dengue fever cases, with a greater presence in the months of March, April and May, evidencing the influence of climatic elements in the seasonality during the year. It was indentified a minimum thermal threshold of 21,51°C, maximum of 31,01°C and an average rainfall of 26,71mm for Santa Cruz, since Copacabana was identified with the minimum favorable thermal threshold of 22,81°C, maximum of 28,08°C and an average rainfall of 39,16mm. Although Copacabana has the best social indicators, the neighborhood was for 5 years, during the 9 ones analyzed, with the greater dengue fever incidence when compared to Santa Cruz. Thus, it is believed that one of the reasons for such a lower notification to Santa Cruz may be the underreporting caused in the peripheral neighborhoods, since in many cases the population when is sick does not go to the hospitals to get help, so the registration of the cases does not occur, besides the possible greater circulation of serotypes of dengue fever in Copacabana because it is a neighborhood with great touristic circulation.