Urban territory and the health disease process : territorial profile of the health in São Geraldo in Pouso Alegre - MG / Territorio urbano e o processo saúde-doença : perfil territorial da saúde no São Geraldo em Pouso Alegre-MG
AUTOR(ES)
Rivaldo Mauro de Faria
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
The investigation of the relationship between the urban territory and the process health-disease constitutes the base of the concerns that motivated the present work. We must begin of the presupposition that the health has a territorial dependence and, once understood, it can become an important tool for the planning in public health. When delineating the territorial profile of the health of an area it can be early actions of control of long period and to reduce the impacts of the corrective actions of short period. The research, presented here, constitutes a theoretical-practical effort that looks for to insert the object of the geographical science in the analyses in public health. For that, it was made the use of a theoretical instrument, the category territory defended in Milton Santos work and an object for its application, the neighborhood São Geraldo, located in Pouso Alegre-MG. The inherent complexity to the urban dynamics produces territories of uses differentiated that have relationship direct or indirect with the production of diseases. This is of case neighborhood São Geraldo, an area of social exclusion, favorable to the production of some illnesses. Especially the diseases infectious, due their characteristics, are very common in that territory. In this research, the sharp diarrhea, hepatitis A, dengue and lepstospirosis were investigated. The temporary scale for the collection of the data understood the period from 2002 to 2006 (except for the sharp diarrhea, whose data are of 2006). When accomplishing the territorial diagnosis of the study area, it was possible to establish its relationship with the production of those illnesses. The territorial profile of the neighborhood São Geraldo can be taken as a factor cause of the disease and, at the same time, the scenery for the implementation of practices of primary attention in health
ASSUNTO(S)
geografia humana - pouso alegre (mg) saude ambiental - pouso alegre (mg) environmental health human geography territorialidade humana human territoriality
