A espacialização do câncer mamário e uterino em Porto Velho, RO

• Main Authors: Sheila Castro dos Santos, Geisa Chaves do Nascimento dos Santos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa 2020-10-01
• Series: Terr@ Plural
• Subjects: cancer preventation; health of women; public policies; health geography
• Online Access: https://revistas2.uepg.br/index.php/tp/article/view/13232/209209213733

This paper of Health Geography presents and discusses the incidence and spatialization of cancer in Porto Velho, from 2012 to 2016, with data provided by the Hospital de Base Dr. Ary Pinheiro, and which measures are effective to combat this endemic disease. Porto Velho showed high numbers of cancer cases, both breast and uterus, mainly due to a lack of information. The highest rates are in neighborhoods that concentrate on working women faced with the choice between earning the salary for their maintenance and the basic prevention of their health. The conceptions of Health Geography in this work involved the analysis not only of the people directly or indirectly involved, as patients and attendants but also of health public policies. It was also evident the disengagement with the completion of anamnesis data, hindering research in Health Geography.