Spatialization of Medical Care in the Private Network of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (Brazil) from 2007 to 2016

Carlos Miguel Freire Silva, Leônidas Conceição Barroso

The spatial distribution of doctors is a subject of great value to society, since it is a factor that relates to the social welfare of the population in any locality, since they are the main providers of health services. In addition, the guarantee of universal access to health services is a worrying challenge. This work contributes to minimizing the impact of the imbalance of medical distribution. For this, there were elaborated and displayed temporal cartographic information of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (RMBH), located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, which demonstrate the dynamics of the organization over the last years. In this way the approach of the geography of health was used, using the tools of statistics under the optics of spatial analysis and technological support of geographic information systems. The distribution of health care has presented significant concentration in the capital, without change over the years even with the growth of the population contingent in the surrounding cities.

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