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Cutaneous leishmaniasis in protected environmental areas in the Eastern Amazon: the case of São Félix do Xingu, Pará, Brazil

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021
Introduction: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis is a disease transmitted to men and animals by infected female phlebotomine sandflies and is considered a great environmental and public health problem in the Amazon region.
Rafael Aleixo Coelho de Oliveira, Claudia do Socorro Carvalho Miranda, Juan Andrade Guedes, TainaraCarvalho Garcia Miranda Filgueiras, Cléa Nazaré Carneiro Bichara, Marília de Souza Araújo, Claudia Nazaré de Souza Almeida Titan Martins, Erica Feio Carneiro Nunes, Ana Lydia Lédo de Castro Ribeiro Cabeça, Manoel Antonio Costa de Rezende, Selma Kazumi da Trindade Noguchi, Nelson Veiga Gonçalves   +11 more
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Visceral Leishmaniasis and Land Use and Cover in the Carajás Integration Region, Eastern Amazon, Brazil

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022
Human visceral leishmaniasis is a major public health problem in the Amazon. Thus, we analyzed the spatial distribution of this disease and its relationship with epidemiological, socioeconomic, and environmental variables in the Carajás Integration ...
Claudia do Socorro Carvalho Miranda, Bruna Costa de Souza, Tainara Carvalho Garcia Miranda Filgueiras, Alder Mourão de Sousa, Maira Cibelle da Silva Peixoto, Tainã Carvalho Garcia Miranda Filgueiras, Frederico José Carvalho Miranda, Sérgio Luiz Althoff, Raimundo Gladson Corrêa Carvalho, Nelson Veiga Gonçalves   +9 more
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Geodesign Experiments in Areas of Social Vulnerability in the Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Land, 2021
This paper presents and discusses the use of methodologies for shared and participatory planning through Geodesign, in areas of irregular occupation and social vulnerability in the urban areas of the Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Ana Clara Mourão Moura, Camila Marques Zyngier, Ítalo Sousa Sena, Vanessa Tenuta Freitas   +3 more
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Geoprocessing in health area [PDF]

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2006
The map's usage and the concerns about geographic distribution related with diseases are not a recent issue. A classical example is the John Snow survey -maps were used to locate cholera's cases and related them with the water supplying. The spatial representation techniques are fewer used in health sectors due to troubles in managing such information.
Hino, Paula, Villa, Tereza Cristina Scatena, Sassaki, Cinthia Midori, Nogueira, Jordana de Almeida, Santos, Claudia Benedita dos   +4 more
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Spatial distribution of malaria and primary healthcare in Cametá and Tucuruí, Pará state, Brazil

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2022
Introduction: Malaria cases in Brazil are concentrated in the Amazon region. In the state of Pará, malaria is considered an endemic disease, and the population has different levels of exposure, which contributes to different types of occurrence in the ...
Maira Cibelle da Silva Peixoto, Claudia do Socorro Carvalho Miranda, Pedro Silvestre da Silva Campos, Alba Lucia Ribeiro Raithy Pereira, Marília de Souza Araújo, Emerson Cordeiro Morais, Roberto Carlos Figueiredo, Adriana Veiga da Conceição Silva, João Sérgio de Sousa Oliveira, Nelson Veiga Gonçalves   +9 more
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COVID-19 in socially vulnerable quilombola populations in Salvaterra, Pará, Eastern Amazon, Brazil

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021
Introduction: COVID-19 is a severe respiratory syndrome caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In Brazil the highest infection rates are associated with socially vulnerable populations.
Nelson Veiga Gonçalves, João Simão de Melo Neto, Selma Kazumi da Trindade Noguchi, Andrey Silva Machado, Alcindo da Silva Martins Junior, Maira Cibelle da Silva Peixoto, Alba Lúcia Ribeiro Raithy, Camylle Maia Costa Faria, Tainara Carvalho Garcia Miranda Filgueiras, Alex Baima Amaral Júnior, Claudia do Socorro Carvalho Miranda   +10 more
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AUTOMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF HIERARCHICAL ROAD NETWORKS [PDF]

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016
This paper describes an automated method of constructing a hierarchical road network given a single dataset, without the presence of thematic attributes.
W. Yang
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Semi‐automated assessment for NatureServe subnational conservation status ranks for state floras [PDF]

Appl Plant Sci
Abstract Premise Conservation status ranks measure the potential risk of extinction for species at global, national, and subnational levels, taking into account rarity, threats, and trends. These assessments are largely incomplete due to funding and resource limitations.
Prins J, Shaw J.
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Suicide attempts: epidemiologic trends towards geoprocessing [PDF]

Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2018
Abstract In order to study data about suicide attempts and do the mapping of occurrence areas, it was developed an ecologic and exploring study, making use of techniques of geoprocessing, based on confirmed cases of suicide attempts. Cases of self-poisoning were included in the urban area of Campina Grande county, in the period of 2010-2013. A total of
Almeida, Thassiany Sarmento Oliveira de, Fook, Sayonara Maria Lia, Mariz, Saulo Rios, Camêlo, Edwirde Luiz Silva, Gomes, Lidiane Cristina Félix   +4 more
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis: Spatial distribution and environmental risk factors in the state of Pará, Brazilian Eastern Amazon

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2019
Introduction: Cutaneous leishmaniasis is an infectious disease transmitted by phlebotomine sandflies and is considered a great environmental and public health problem.
Nelson Veiga Gonçalves, Claudia do Socorro Carvalho Miranda, Rodrigo Junior Farias da Costa, Juan Andrade Guedes, Erica Silva de Souza Matsumura, Simone Beverly Nascimento da Costa, Selma Kazumi da Trindade Noguchi, Luis Henrique Rocha Guimarães, Rafael Aleixo Coelho de Oliveira, Lívia Simone Alves Tavares, Vera Regina da Cunha Menezes Palácios, Marília Brasil Xavier   +11 more
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