The impact of socio-economic status on incidence of AIDS cases in Brazilian

• Main Authors: Márcia Regina Godoy, Tanara Rosângela Vieira Sousa, Everton Nunes de Silva
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2013-12-01
• Series: Economia & Região
• Subjects: Socioeconomic Indicators. Public Health. Panel Data; ;HIV;AIDS
• Online Access: http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/ecoreg/article/view/12455

In recent years, many researchers have devoted attention to the issue of the importance of social indicators in disease reduction. The objective of this paper is to analyze the statistical association between the reported AIDS cases and some socioeconomic variables. We analyzed a sample of 1,994 Brazilian municipalities with AIDS cases reported in 1991 and 2000. The variables analyzed are: AIDS incidence rate per capita, illiteracy rate, Gini Index, per capita income, access to electricity and television, life expectancy at birth. The approach used in this study was econometric panel data model. The results of this analysis show that socioeconomic variables are important for understanding the incidence of AIDS cases in Brazil, and are important for the design of public policies to combat the increasing incidence of HIV / AIDS, also show a distinct pattern to found in the literature for African countries.