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BARCELLOS, Christovam. Unidades y escalas en los análisis espaciales en salud. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2003, vol.29, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3127.

The geographic space is a category of synthesis and convergence through which several processes involved in the life, environment and health of the population are expressed. One of the most important tasks for the evaluation of health situations is the development of indicators capable of finding and reflecting risk conditions for health and originated from adverse environmental and social conditions. However, the results that may be obtained from the spatial analysis of indicators are subjected to different choices made throughout these processes, that is, the selection of indicators of the information sources, of the level of analysis, of spatial units of reference, of spatial analysis methods and even the conception of geographical space. This paper discusses the effect of selection of data and scale aggregating units on the spatial analysis for the evaluation of health situations, using the distribution of mortality rates from esophageal cancer in the south of Brazil as an example

Palavras-chave : MAPS; GEOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY; MEDICAL; SCALES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLAMS [epidemiology]; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLAMS [mortality].

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