Analysis of health frequency measures and the human development index (HDI): Cholera between global economic crises (2010 2018).

Abstract

Social injuries produce vulnerable groups in public health problems, among which infectious diseases stand out. Socioeconomic factors are related to development and consequently impact on environmental quality, creating weaknesses in human health. One of the metrics used to measure development is the Human Development Index (HDI). Within this context, this work highlights Cholera: one of the most important public health problems in developing countries, especially in areas with neglected populations. Thus, relations between the number of cases and deaths of the disease with the regionalized HDI were observed, during the period between economic crises (2010 to 2018), with the aim of observing the difference in vulnerability between world regions based on the suggested metrics. The areas that presented low or medium HDI (developing regions), in most cases, were expressed as the most subject to the occurrence of the disease, mainly due to the period of economic recovery analyzed. It is suggested that further studies relate social indicators with the number of injuries due to epidemic diseases, as well as temporal analysis, in a situations of economic stability, in order to support the reflection on how much socioeconomic issues have a direct influence on health surveillance actions.