Doenças emergentes e reemergentes em ecossistemas urbanos - dengue e zika como modelos de estudo

Abstract

Among the current risks faced by the world population, related to human health, they should be highlighted. In the scientific literature, studies of social epidemiology emphasize the importance of understanding risk perception and its influence on human behavior in the face of diseases that affect the population, so that prevention plans are more efficiently developed. In the light of social epidemiology, which focuses on the relationship between social factors and diseases, this dissertation's main factors are assessed as the perceived people, how well understood and how they behave towards Dengue and Zika and investigate the activities of socioeconomic and individual factors in the previous objective. Methods: we applied online questionnaires published to any State in Brazil, over 18 years old. The questionnaire contains a socioeconomic questionnaire, another perception and behavior of the volunteers in relation to dengue or Zika. To assess perception, as questions, select from eight risk categories, have answer options after a Likert scale from 0 to 5. The behavior questionnaire also presents responses on a Likert scale, with each number meaning a different frequency and as questions if relate to ways of preventing both diseases. After analysis, the questionnaires generated notes of perception and behavior, which were analyzed in a GLM according to the following variables: sex, family income, education, age and previous experience with a disease. Result and conclusion: For Dengue, the factors of age, sex and family income influence the risk perception and only the age influenced in the adoption of preventive practices. For Zika, age and family income above 7 minimum wages influenced the variation in risk perception and the educational factor influenced in preventive behavior. To conclude that other covariates may be modeling our results, that a wide dissemination of information about diseases may deviate from any difference in the frequency of application of preventive tests and we propose that new studies are carried out using other models of emerging and reemerging diseases.