Deforestation and malaria incidence in the legal Amazon Region between 1996 and 2012

• Main Authors: Raphael Mendonça Guimarães (Author), Bárbara Campos Valente (Author), Priscila Almeida Faria (Author), Lásaro Linhares Stephanelli (Author), Juliana Valentim Chaiblich (Author), Felipe Bagatoli Silveira Arjona (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto de Estudos em Saúde Coletiva da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Malaria is a major public health problem, and Brazil is the largest contributor in America to the number of cases. In the country, the Amazon concentrates around 99.5% of the cases. This article aims to compare trends in deforestation rate and the parasite index of malaria in the Amazon reg...