Regional differentiation (geo)demographic indicators of morbidity in the South Moravian Region

Morbidity is one of the important factors in demographic processes. Demographics and socio-economic influences are also often monitored in epidemiological studies. For this reason, we have selected a total of 19 determinants that correspond to the five main themes used by the European Commission in the evaluation of health indicators (life expectancy, age index, mortality structure, number of doctors, Body Alms Index, etc.). The aim of this paper is to evaluate morbidity indicators and their regional differentiation at district South Moravian region in the period 2006-2015. The development olmorbidity indicators is compared using growth coefficients and the results for the mortality structure are visualized (ArcGIS). Health determinants were evaluated using a questionnaire survey (255 respondents), the results of which were transferral to the polygon layer in geographic information technologies and visualized Results showed regional differentiation in the development of morbidity indicators. The best results are in the district of Brno-city and Brno-country, while the worst performances across the evaluated themes are described by the districts Bionsko; Hodonin and especially Breclav. In the future this could affect the increase of regional disparities in general.