Child and adolescent spatial distribution of mortality from cancer and the use of pesticides in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Keywords:
pesticides; mortality; childhood cancer; spatial analysis;Abstract
Cancer is a significant public health issue and is presented as the second cause of children and adolescents from 0 to 19 year old mortality. One of the modifiable factors for the increase of incidence and mortality is related to pesticides exposure. This study’s objective is to carry out the distribution of the use of pesticides and mortality rate from childhood cancer in Mato Grosso cities from 2013 to 2017. It is an ecologic study based on secundary data of mortality from childhood cancer from Mortality Information System (SIM) and Mato Grosso’s IBGE/SIDRA database. Between 2013 and 2017 pesticides consumption average was 205.4 million liters. Spatial ditribution has shown that most of the childhood cancer mortality coefficients are located in high agricultural production cities. Pesticide exposure contributes to the increase of mortality from cancer and agroecological practices and pesticide use reduction may help in decreasing for câncer population matogrossense.