Temporal Spatialization as a Strategy for Urban Management in Controlling Diseases Transmitted by Mosquitoes

Abstract

Due to their ecophysiological ability to adapt to new environments, combined with climate change, mosquitoes that vector dengue fever and other arboviruses are increasingly expanding their areas of infestation. Dengue fever has shown growth across the planet, reaching countries and regions that were previously free of this disease. And urban management must find tools that help minimize or eradicate arbovirus vectors. This research aims to demonstrate how the temporal spatialization of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes can contribute to urban management in controlling these types of illnesses in small cities. Through a case study in a small town in the interior of Brazil, it was possible to accurately detect, through temporal spatialization, which neighborhoods were most prone to the disease from 2010 to 2020. Thus, urban management can develop public policies in these neighborhoods and improve their performance against the disease.