Journal article
Risk of the Brazilian health care system over 5572 municipalities to exceed health care capacity due to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
Abstract
The spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has challenged governments to develop public policies to reduce the load of the COVID-19 on health care systems, which is commonly referred to as "flattening the curve". This study aims to address this issue by proposing a spatial multicriteria approach to estimate the risk of the Brazilian health care system, by municipality, to exceed the health care capacity because of an influx of patients …
Authors
Requia WJ; Kondo EK; Adams MD; Gold DR; Struchiner CJ
Journal
The Science of The Total Environment, Vol. 730, ,
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
August 2020
DOI
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139144
ISSN
0048-9697