CORRELATION BETWEEN SOCIAL INDICATORS AND THE DEMOGRAPHY OF PSYCHIATRISTS IN PARANA

Abstract

It is up to the psychiatrist to care for mental health. There are several factors that affect it: social and economic conditions, among others. This work aims to georeference psychiatrists active in the State of Parana in 2020 and associate it with variables that have the potential to affect mental health: municipal HDI income, longevity, education, homicide rate, population by municipality, Gini index, mental health-specific and non-specific bed rates. We calculate Moran's Global and Local Indices and their pseudovalues. The results shows that the concentration of psychiatrists per hundred thousand inhabitants has a positive spatial autocorrelation with the HDI variables income, longevity and education, in addition to the homicide rate, and negative with the rate of nonspecific clinics, in addition to having no spatial autocorrelation with the Index of Gini or with the total population by municipality. In conclusion, psychiatrists are mainly concentrated in regions closer to the largest cities in the state such as: Curitiba, Londrina, Maringá and Cascavel, and despite the fact that there are spatial autocorrelations between the density of psychiatrists and some of the independent variables, these were not able to explain why the professionals allocate where they are allocated.