Abstract：
Accidents caused by venomous animals, especially scorpions, are a major public health problem due to the increase in incidence in recent decades, since scorpion species have become well adapted to urbanized environments. Nonetheless, the impact of urbanization in scorpionism is not clear. The objective of this study is to correlate the variation in the incidence of scorpion accidents with the rate of urbanized area. This was a retrospective, epidemiological study of accidents by scorpions in 376 of the most populous Brazilian cities in 2019 and compared to ten years earlier, using Spearman\'s correlation coefficient. Data were obtained by accessing DATASUS/TABNET and IBGE Cidades platforms. A weak negative correlation between scorpion stings and urbanization was found in 2009 (rs = -0.145). The correlation between the variation in the incidence of scorpionism and the percentage of urbanized area was not significant. Although the highest incidence of scorpionism occurs in-more urbanized environments, there is a wide distribution of scorpion accidents, especially in tropical and subtropical regions due to climatic conditions, the level of urbanization of Brazilian municipalities was not the major factor in the increase of scorpion accidents.
摘要：
有毒动物造成的事故，尤其是蝎子,由于近几十年来发病率的增加，是一个主要的公共卫生问题，因为蝎子物种已经很好地适应了城市化的环境。尽管如此，城市化对蝎子主义的影响尚不清楚。这项研究的目的是将蝎子事故发生率的变化与城市化地区的比率相关联。这是一次回顾,2019年巴西人口最多的376个城市的蝎子事故流行病学研究，与十年前相比，使用斯皮尔曼相关系数。通过访问DATASUS/TABNET和IBGECidades平台获得数据。2009年蝎子叮咬与城市化之间存在弱负相关关系（rs=-0.145）。反贪污罪发生率的变化与城市化地区百分比之间的相关性不显着。尽管蝎子行为的发生率最高发生在更加城市化的环境中，蝎子事故分布广泛，特别是在热带和亚热带地区，由于气候条件，巴西城市的城市化水平并不是蝎子事故增加的主要因素。
