<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/10007430" mdate="2017-05-01 00:00:00"> <author>Domenico Chizzoniti and Monica Moscatelli and Letizia Cattani and Piero Favino and Luca Preis</author> <title>A Settlement Strategy for Health Facilities in Emerging Countries A Case Study in Brazil</title> <pages>790 - 801</pages> <year>2017</year> <volume>11</volume> <number>6</number> <journal>International Journal of Architectural and Environmental Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10007430</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/126</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>A settlement strategy is to anticipate and respond the needs of existing and future communities through the provision of primary health care facilities in marginalized areas. Access to a health care network is important to improving healthcare coverage, often lacking, in developing countries. The study explores that a good sanitary system strategy of rural contexts brings advantages to an existing settlement improving transport, communication, water and social facilities. The objective of this paper is to define a possible methodology to implement primary health care facilities in disadvantaged areas of emerging countries. In this research, we analyze the case study of Lauro de Freitas, a municipality in the Brazilian state of Bahia, part of the Metropolitan Region of Salvador, with an area of 57,662 km&amp;amp;sup2; and 194.641 inhabitants. The health localization system in Lauro de Freitas is an integrated process that involves not only geographical aspects, but also a set of factors population density, epidemiological data, allocation of services, road networks, and more. Data were collected also using semistructured interviews and questionnaires to the local population. Synthesized data suggest that moving away from the coast where there is the greatest concentration of population and services, a network of primary health care facilities is able to improve the living conditions of smalldispersed communities. Based on the health service needs of populations, we have developed a methodological approach that is particularly useful in rural and remote contexts in emerging countries.</abstract> <index>Open Science Index 126, 2017</index> </article>