A Importância dos elementos climáticos no agravamento das doenças respiratórias nos idosos no município de Ituiutaba (MG)

Abstract

When climatic conditions occur abruptly, they directly impact time, but also on the health of the population, especially on people who are in the most fragile health. Thus, it is important to understand how people's physiological system responds to these sudden changes generated in time, which may be in the rise and fall of temperature as the relative humidity of the air, but also due to periods of drought or high humidity, requiring rapid adaptations of the human body. Thus, the present work seeks to understand the physiological conditions of the human body, with a focus on the elderly, a population considered to be within the age group of sixty years or more in the city of Ituiutaba (MG). To carry out the study, the tabulation of data referring to the moments of maximum, average and minimum temperature as well as the relative humidity of the year 2008 to 2018 was developed, analyzing together with these data the rates of cases of monthly hospitalizations in the same interval of years due to respiratory problems among the population of the city of Ituiutaba (MG). It was found from the analyzes performed that from the increase in temperature averages, the relative humidity averages have their indexes reduced, which generated an increase in hospitalization cases among the elderly.