Vigilância de doenças endêmicas em áreas urbanas: a interface entre mapas de setores censitários e indicadores de morbidade

摘要: In this article we discuss the methodological issues associated with creation of a surveillance system for endemic diseases in urban areas based on analysis populations at risk and spatially referenced epidemiological indicators. We comment system's basic requirements, selection criteria socioeconomic variables, steps to combine these variables so as construct census-based deprivation index. also present ways solved some operational problems related generation digitized census tracts maps linkage morbidity data from different sources. This approach, spatial organization into account diseases, exemplified here by tuberculosis leprosy, allows interaction several official sets health services order geographically discriminate inner-city strata. Criteria constructing strata were considered useful tool planning management activities control cities.