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    Environmental factors can influence dengue reported cases
    (Assoc Medica Brasileira, 2017) Carneiro, Marco Antonio F.; Alves, Beatriz da C. A.; Gehrke, Flavia de Sousa; Domingues, Jose Nuno; Sa, Nelson; Paixao, Susana; Figueiredo, Joao; Ferreira, Ana; Almeida, Cleonice; Machi, Amaury; Savoia, Eriane; Nascimento, Vania; Fonseca, Fernando [UNIFESP]
    Introduction: Global climate changes directly affect the natural environment and contribute to an increase in the transmission of diseases by vectors. Among these diseases, dengue is at the top of the list. The aim of our study was to understand the consequences of temporal variability of air temperature in the occurrence of dengue in an area comprising seven municipalities of the Greater Sao Paulo. Method: Characterization of a temporal trend of the disease in the region between 2010 and 2013 was performed through analysis of the notified number of dengue cases over this period. Our analysis was complemented with meteorological (temperature) and pollutant concentration data (PM10). Results: We observed that the months of January, February, March, April and May (from 2010 to 2013) were the ones with the highest number of notified cases. We also found that there is a statistical association of moisture and PM10 with the reported cases of dengue. Conclusion: Although the temperature does not statistically display an association with recorded cases of dengue, we were able to verify that temperature peaks coincide with dengue outbreak peaks. Future studies on environmental pollution and its influence on the development of Aedes aegypti mosquito during all stages of its life cycle, and the definition of strategies for better monitoring, including campaigns and surveillance, would be compelling.
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    Tecnopolíticas das mudanças climáticas: modelos climáticos, geopolítica e governamentalidade
    (Fundaco Oswaldo Cruz, 2017) Hochsprung Miguel, Jean Carlos [UNIFESP]
    Based on an empirical study of climate modeling at Brazil's Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, the article explores how climate modeling represents a pragmatic government approach in the realm of climate change. The discussion begins with how this pragmatic approach serves the purposes of the geopolitical action of the State within the international framework of global climate knowledge production. It then shows how modeling engenders forms of interpretation of climate change phenomena and future impacts on the local scale and finds expression in governmental rationalities of a biopolitical nature. In short, the discussion is how the technoscience of climate modeling is constructed as a governmental technology and rationality (governmentality) of the State, a process I call the technopolitics of climate change.