The use of social indicators to implement the Health Surveillance model

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to characterize the coverage area of the Butantã sub-district, based on compound indicators that represent the categories autonomy, quality of life, human development and equity; and discuss the adequacy of using said categories to execute Health Surveillance in this territory. This is a descriptive, exploratory study, with a quantitative approach, with data obtained through identification of public domain data banks with information about health and social indicators, as well as the indexes of social inclusion/exclusion used to build the categories autonomy, quality of life, human development and equity. The results show that the compound indicators allowed for the unveiling of the inequalities in health and life conditions in the territory. The Raposo Tavares and Rio Pequeno districts showed the worst indexes of social inclusion/exclusion in the Butantã sub-prefecture, configured as the districts with the highest social exclusion.