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Salud colectiva

Print version ISSN 1669-2381On-line version ISSN 1851-8265

Abstract

NINO, Larry. Health risk zoning: yellow fever from a geographical perspective in La Macarena, Department of Meta, Colombia. Salud colect. [online]. 2018, vol.14, n.1, pp.19-32. ISSN 1669-2381.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2018.1087.

This paper attempts to zone yellow fever risk in La Macarena (department of Meta, Colombia) in terms of environmental hazards and socio-economic vulnerabilities. An ecological study was carried out, in which data published from 2007 to 2013 on conditions of the municipality were integrated into a geographic information system. Through a superposition of map layers, magnitudes of hazard and vulnerability proportional to the degree of severity were obtained. As a result the spatial heterogeneity of the risk of yellow fever was described, suggesting that the areas surrounding populated centers, roads and rivers present the highest probability of transmission. It is concluded that the cartographic representation of the spatial distribution of risk in the municipality constitutes a methodological contribution to health risk zoning - in concrete geographical areas and based on hazards and vulnerabilities - which facilitates decision-making in public health.

Keywords : Risk Map; Health Vulnerability; Hazards; Zoning; Geography, Medical; Yellow Fever; Colombia.

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