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Araujo,Ricardo Vieira; Albertini,Marcos Roberto; Costa-da-Silva,André Luis; Suesdek,Lincoln; Franceschi,Nathália Cristina Soares; Bastos,Nancy Marçal; Katz,Gizelda; Cardoso,Vivian Ailt; Castro,Bronislawa Ciotek; Capurro,Margareth Lara; Allegro,Vera Lúcia Anacleto Cardoso. |
Urban heat islands are characterized by high land surface temperature, low humidity, and poor vegetation, and considered to favor the transmission of the mosquito-borne dengue fever that is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. We analyzed the recorded dengue incidence in Sao Paulo city, Brazil, in 2010-2011, in terms of multiple environmental and socioeconomic variables. Geographical information systems, thermal remote sensing images, and census data were used to classify city areas according to land surface temper- ature, vegetation cover, population density, socioeconomic status, and housing standards. Of the 7415 dengue cases, a majority (93.1%) mapped to areas with land surface temperature >28 ◦ C. The dengue incidence rate (cases per 100,000... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Urban heat islands; Land surface temperature; Vegetation cover; Dengue; Aedes aegypti. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702015000200146 |
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