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urban centers and the increase in the frequency of natural disasters caused by climate
change are also included in such studies.
Vegetation promotes the naturalization of urban environments, recovers the natural
cycles of water, mitigates the phenomenon of heat islands, contributes to recovering
the original rates of rainwater infiltrations, reduces runoff and promotes flood control.
Obtaining associative or quantitative relationships between green spaces and health
can indicate better ways to plan the urban space, promote more objective metrics
for said planning, and contribute to better health and municipal management, with
impacts on the quality of life and optimization of the use of public resources. However, associating and quantifying the importance of each of these factors alone or
in groups is a great challenge (Suppakittpaidarn et al. 2017; Amato-Lourenço et al.
2016).
The purpose of this study was to evaluate qualitatively the association between
socioeconomic and built environment indicators, including green infrastructure, and
morbidities of respiratory and circulatory diseases in municipalities of the State of
Paraná in the form of a pilot study.
2 Materials and Methods: Municipalities of Paraná, Data
Sources, Data Mining
Study area Paraná is one of the 26 Brazilian States. It is composed of 399 municipalities of a total of 5570 in Brazil, and is located in Brazil’s Southern region (Fig. 1).
The total population in the state was 10,444,526 inhabitants in 2010 (IBGE 2010),
the sixth in Brazil, which corresponds to about 5% of the total population of the
Fig. 1 The State of Paraná, Brazil, IPARDES. (IPARDES. Paraná in Figures. Available at http://
www.ipardes.gov.br/index.php?pg_conteudo=1&cod_conteudo=3. Access on November 18. 2018.)
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urban centers and the increase in the frequency of natural disasters caused by climate
change are also included in such studies.
Vegetation promotes the naturalization of urban environments, recovers the natural
cycles of water, mitigates the phenomenon of heat islands, contributes to recovering
the original rates of rainwater infiltrations, reduces runoff and promotes flood control.
Obtaining associative or quantitative relationships between green spaces and health
can indicate better ways to plan the urban space, promote more objective metrics
for said planning, and contribute to better health and municipal management, with
impacts on the quality of life and optimization of the use of public resources. However, associating and quantifying the importance of each of these factors alone or
in groups is a great challenge (Suppakittpaidarn et al. 2017; Amato-Lourenço et al.
2016).
The purpose of this study was to evaluate qualitatively the association between
socioeconomic and built environment indicators, including green infrastructure, and
morbidities of respiratory and circulatory diseases in municipalities of the State of
Paraná in the form of a pilot study.
2 Materials and Methods: Municipalities of Paraná, Data
Sources, Data Mining
Study area Paraná is one of the 26 Brazilian States. It is composed of 399 municipalities of a total of 5570 in Brazil, and is located in Brazil’s Southern region (Fig. 1).
The total population in the state was 10,444,526 inhabitants in 2010 (IBGE 2010),
the sixth in Brazil, which corresponds to about 5% of the total population of the
Fig. 1 The State of Paraná, Brazil, IPARDES. (IPARDES. Paraná in Figures. Available at http://
www.ipardes.gov.br/index.php?pg_conteudo=1&cod_conteudo=3. Access on November 18. 2018.)