Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2017 · 20 citations · 2 references
Social SciencesGeographyInfectious DiseasesEpidemiologySpatial AnalysisSpatial StatisticsDisease GeographyGeostatistical AnalysisSocial VulnerabilitySpatial Distribution Of DiseaseSpatial Risk AssessmentTuberculosis EpidemiologyDisease Vulnerability AssessmentMoran ModelSocial Vulnerability IndexSpatial Epidemiology Of MortalitySpatial Vulnerability AnalysisSpatial Vulnerability AssessmentTuberculosis MortalityTuberculosis Spatial Epidemiology
INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common infectious disease in the world. We aimed to analyze the spatial risk of tuberculosis mortality and to verify associations in high-risk areas with social vulnerability. METHODS: This was an ecological study. The scan statistic was used to detect areas at risk, and the Bivariate Moran Index was used to verify relationships between variables. RESULTS: High-risk areas of tuberculosis mortality were statistically significantly associated with domain 2 of the Social Vulnerability Index (I=0.010; p=0.001). CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence regarding areas with high risk and that vulnerability is a determinant of TB mortality.
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Spatial disease clusters: Detection and inference
Martin Kulldorff, Neville Nagarwalla · Statistics in Medicine · 1995 · 1.6K citations