Resumo
Desde o registo mais famoso de análise espacial de saúde, em 1854, a Epidemiologia Espacial afirmou-se e cresceu como disciplina. Mas o que contribuiu para este crescimento? A disponibilidade de dados? A capacidade de os analisar?
Nesta apresentação vão abordar-se conceitos essenciais para o entendimento desta temática que tem potencial para afirmar-se como ferramenta essencial na construção do conhecimento em saúde.
Sandra Maria
Sandra Maria Ferreira Alves graduated from Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra inMathematics (2001) and has a MSc (2005) and PhD (2013) in Biomedical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto. She is interested in statistical modeling of health events, epidemiology, spatial analysis; her applied research has been on hip fractures. She has been at Biomedical Engineering Institute - INEB since 2003, first as a student and since May 2013 has a researcher in GeoEpidemiology. She is also a Professor at the School of Allied Health Technologies Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ESTSP.IPP), since 2002, in the scientific area of Biomathematics, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics.