CANONICAL ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE INDICATORS AND THE INCIDENCE OF DISEASES AND INFANT MORTALITY

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to identify correlations between indicators of basic housing infrastructure conditions and public health indicators for Brazilian states in 2017. For the purpose of checking the correlations existing between such groups of variables, the Canonical Correlation Analysis (ACC) method was used. The results showed the formation of two significant correlations. The first indicates that canonical variables are determined with positive coefficients by the percentage of the urban population with water supply and access to the sewage services, and with negative coefficients, by the percentage of the urban population with waste collection and also vulnerable to poverty. The second shows that the most representative variables were the percentage of the population with water supply, those vulnerable to poverty and the percentage of treated sewage. The analyzes also suggest an association of Brazilian states with a deficit in basic housing infrastructure and public health indicators, with differentiation of scores based on the localized region. The states of the North and Northeast regions had lower scores than the states of the South, Southeast and Midwest.