Research has not exhausted the new contours that tuberculosis is acquiring every time, in different socioeconomic times, the growth of cities, the agglomeration of urban centers. Early detection, diagnosis and proper treatment are the main measures to control tuberculosis (WHO, 2009). Despite efforts tuberculosis still has high rates of infection, indicating the need for research of high risk of disease groups. The objective was to analyze the relationship between territory, mobility and pulmonary new reported cases of tuberculosis in the city of Guarulhos. We proceeded to the spatial analysis of the new pulmonary cases from 2005 to 2014 and from interviews and mental maps of lung new cases reported in 2015 was investigated the influence of mobility and socio-spatial organization in the occurrence of the disease. The results showed that the associated variables were the percentage of households with more than five residents and percentage of residents with exclusive use of the residents bathroom or toilet and sewage through the sewage system or storm. Interviews, mental maps and GPS tracking on the mobility of case studies allow you to check the length of the living area (circled) in a sample of patients. This territory is much broader than the usually investigated in search of communicating.These results can bring new perspectives for research and the expansion of the active search in the city.
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