Figure 1.
Map of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) with 146 coverage areas of the Basic Health Units.
Figure 2.
Spatial distribution of the number of infected dogs per 1,000 inhabitants (A) and the cumulative incidence rates of the human visceral leishmaniasis cases per 100,000 inhabitans (B), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), 2007–2009.
The categories of both maps were defined using the quartiles.
Figure 3.
Relation between the log-relative risk of human visceral leishmaniasis (Y axis) and the covariates included in the spatial analysis (X axis), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), 2007–2009.
The points represent each of the 146 spatial units of analysis. A) number of infected dogs to inhabitants; B) Health Vulnerability Index; C) percentage of illiterate people; D) percentage of householder <4 years of education; E) percentage of householder with income <twice the Brazilian minimum wage; F) average income (inverted) of the householder; G) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index-NDVI; H) altitude.
Table 1.
Estimates parameters of the univariate spatial models for the log-relative risk of visceral leishmaniasis, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), 2007–2009.
Table 2.
Estimates parameters (smoothed mean) of the full spatial models for the log-relative risk of visceral leishmaniasis, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2007–2009.
Figure 4.
Spatial distribution of the smoothed estimates (mean) for the relative risk of visceral leishmaniasis (model 1), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), 2007–2009.
The asterisks indicate the coverage areas whose relative risk is considered statistically greater than 1.0 (95% credibility interval).