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Relationship between social development indicators and mortality due to Diabetes Mellitus in Brazil: a space-time analysis* * Paper extracted from doctoral dissertation “Mortalidade por diabetes mellitus e efeito da doença na gravidade e óbito por covid-19: subsídios ao monitoramento epidemiológico”, presented to Programa de Pós-Graduação em Cuidados Clínicos em Enfermagem e Saúde do Centro de Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.

Objective:

to identify the space-time pattern of mortality due to Diabetes Mellitus in Brazil, as well as its relationship with social development indicators.

Method:

an ecological and time series nationwide study based on secondary data from the Unified Health System Informatics Department, with space-time analysis and inclusion of indicators in non-spatial and spatial regression models. The following was performed: overall mortality rate calculation; characterization of the sociodemographic and regional profiles of the death cases by means of descriptive and time analysis; and elaboration of thematic maps.

Results:

a total of 601,521 deaths related to Diabetes Mellitus were recorded in Brazil, representing a mean mortality rate of 29.5/100,000 inhabitants. The states of Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas and Sergipe, Rio de Janeiro, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul presented high-high clusters. By using regression models, it was verified that the Gini index (β=11.7) and the Family Health Strategy coverage (β=3.9) were the indicators that most influenced mortality due to Diabetes Mellitus in Brazil.

Conclusion:

in Brazil, mortality due to Diabetes presents an overall increasing trend, revealing itself as strongly associated with places that have worse social indicators.

Descriptors:
Diabetes Mellitus; Mortality; Social Indicators; Ecological Studies; Spatial Analysis; Time Series Studies


Highlights:

(1) The time-space pattern of mortality due to Diabetes presents an increasing trend.

(2) The Northeast and South regions present high rates of mortality due to Diabetes.

(3) Mortality due to Diabetes is associated with worse sociodemographic indicators.

(4) A relationship is observed between income, access to health and mortality due to Diabetes.

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