1. Aedes Aegypti—Insights on the Impact of Water Services.
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Novaes, Carlos, Silva Pinto, Francisco, and Marques, Rui Cunha
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AEDES aegypti ,URBAN health ,SANITATION ,URBAN runoff management ,MOSQUITO control ,MUNICIPAL water supply ,VECTOR control ,INSECTICIDE resistance ,ENVIRONMENTAL infrastructure - Abstract
Epidemics in general and dengue in particular surcharge the health services and the economy. However, the fighting actions are circumscribed to the health sector despite the known positive economic impacts that the investments in water supply and sanitation services (WSS) may cause on society and public health. Besides the fact that urban WSS infrastructure is closely linked to disease prevention, in Brazil, the user's perception and demand are very few and many institutional aspects, like the integration between local WSS, health, environment, and development of city councils, need to be improved and better aligned. In this way, disease control and vector density reduction remain challenges to be overcome. This article addresses the need for greater institutionalization of urban WSS relating them to health aspects from official data. It concludes that the negative impacts of lacking universal access to WSS on dengue and other mosquito diseases are dispersed in all cities, regions, and populations regardless of their degree of development. Furthermore, contrary to what is normally emphasized, the analysis carried out shows that the lack of urban stormwater management systems may be an important component of WSS in preventing the proliferation of dengue disease. Plain Language Summary: From the outbreak of COVID‐19, the importance of public health services has been highlighted. However, there are many other diseases that deserve attention as those that arise from the presence of mosquitoes and that are directly related to climate and its changes. This study seeks to correlate data, in Brazil Dengue epidemics with the existing urban infrastructure, especially those related to water supply and sanitation service (WSS), because their absence or insufficiency, and incompleteness propitiates the emergence and proliferation of mosquitoes. The conclusion is that in all urban areas, rich or poor, the problem exists and correlates with the WSS infrastructures. The subject deserves further study and verification in detail of the existing and missing infrastructure and its correlation with the incidence rates of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika diseases. Key Points: Aedes vector‐based diseases, urban water Infrastructure, and socio‐economic variables were analyzed across comparable territories in BrazilAedes vector‐based disease cases in urban areas are correlated with water supply irregularity and total urban population at water riskAnalysis per climate and population density allow to perceive the impact of faulty drainage services in Aedes vector‐based diseases [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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