Influence of meteorological variables on the prevalence of diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti vector

Abstract

People today have directly or indirectly related health problems to climate change, causing an increase in the prevalence of certain diseases. The work shows how the meteorological variables influence the prevalence of diseases transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Data were collected from the Daily Health Monitoring Systems (SIMDA) of the Health Department of the Municipality of Fortaleza and the meteorological data were collected from the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET) website for the period from January 2013 to December 2017. To verify the influence of the climatic elements in the triggering of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika the present work sought to relate the climatic variables to the diseases by seasons and by semester.