Mapeando a saúde: a utilização de sistemas de informação geográfica, o risco ambiental e o câncer
Considering that human health is linked to environmental, social, and economic conditions, all changes in the environment can affect populations and their patterns of health and disease. In this way, the rapid changes that are taking place on the planet, the accelerated industrialization, the use...
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
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| Endereço do item: | https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/47582 |
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| Resumo: | Considering that human health is linked to environmental, social, and economic
conditions, all changes in the environment can affect populations and their patterns of health
and disease. In this way, the rapid changes that are taking place on the planet, the accelerated
industrialization, the use of natural resources, the destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems
and the uncontrolled occupation of the land, end up increasing the pressure on species and
contributing to the emergence and the reappearance of diseases. The term “one health”
reinforces the concept that human health also depends on the health of animals, plants, and the
ecosystem in which they are inserted. Long-term exposure to harmful factors and environments
increases the risk of developing acute or chronic pathologies, such as cancer. The state of Rio
Grande do Norte has a deleterious environmental characteristic, caused by soil contamination
by radioactive elements such as uranium, thorium and potassium, whose radioactive isotopes
and their decay products can serve as sources of environmental contamination. Previous studies
have demonstrated the presence of Radon, which is part of the Uranium decay chain in several
municipalities in the state. This study aimed, through a Geographic Information System, to
determine if the occurrences of cancer deaths in the state follow a geographic pattern and
present the formation of aggregates associated with regions known to be contaminated by Radon. |
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