‘Health-value’: potential epidemiological criteria for health communication

Authors

  • Aline Guio Cavaca Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Vitória, ES, Brasil.
  • Paulo Roberto Vasconcellos-Silva Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
  • Tatiana Breder Emerich Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Vitória, ES, Brasil.
  • Edson Theodoro dos Santos-Neto Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Vitória, ES, Brasil.
  • Adauto Emmerich Oliveira Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Vitória, ES, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v12i1.1296

Keywords:

health communication, indicators of morbidity and mortality, public health, mass media, epidemiology.

Abstract

The study aims to develop potencial priorities criteria for health communication ('health-value'), from the analysis of health policies and morbidity and mortality data of Espírito Santo (ES, Brazil). Documentary research was performed from 2011 and 2012 data. These data were collected in state health priority policies and health information systems, and they were ranked according to decreasing criterion causes of mortality, morbidity and notification, in addition to the coincidence of the disease in more than one policy selected. The `healthvalue' shows ideally priority morbid conditions in the media agenda of ES, such as: ischemic heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, pneumonia, cancer, tuberculosis, hanseniasis, schistosomiasis and dengue. It highlights the persistence of diseases related to poor socio-sanitary conditions, plus child and maternal mortality, syphilis in pregnant women, Aids, diabetes and pertussis. Thus, 'health-value' acts as a relevant criterion in publicization of public problems in order to create attention and guided debates in society.

Author Biographies

Aline Guio Cavaca, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Vitória, ES, Brasil.

Doutorado em Saúde Pública pela Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.

Paulo Roberto Vasconcellos-Silva, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Doutorado em Saúde Pública pela Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.

Tatiana Breder Emerich, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Vitória, ES, Brasil.

Mestrado em Saúde Coletiva pela Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

Edson Theodoro dos Santos-Neto, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Vitória, ES, Brasil.

Doutorado em Saúde Pública pela Fundação Oswaldo Cruz.

Adauto Emmerich Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Vitória, ES, Brasil.

Doutorado em Odontologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

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Published

2018-03-30

How to Cite

Cavaca, A. G., Vasconcellos-Silva, P. R., Emerich, T. B., dos Santos-Neto, E. T., & Oliveira, A. E. (2018). ‘Health-value’: potential epidemiological criteria for health communication. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v12i1.1296

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Original articles

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