Saneamento básico e saúde pública em bacias hidrográficas urbanas: estudo de caso do Riacho Reginaldo – Maceió – AL

• Main Author: Silva, Suzana de Araújo
• Publication Date: 2014
• Format: Master thesis
• Language: por
• Source: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)
• Download full: http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/5270
• topic: Saúde pública; Saneamento; Bacias hidrográficas – Riacho Reginaldo; Public Health; Sanitation; Basin hydrographic - Reginaldo Stream; Urban watersheds; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA SANITARIA::RECURSOS HIDRICOS

Urban watersheds currently have a very complex reality regarding, provision of sanitation, quality of life and health of the population that occupies services. Due to pollution of city rivers, the health of the population that occupies their margins or nearby areas in the basin, generally is compromised. This study analyzed the major diseases related to remediation of Reginaldo Creek basin, since the basin covers about 30% of the population and 18 neighborhoods in the city of Maceió - AL, and the creek is visibly polluted, besides having-been found in previous research immense complexity of problems that are interrelated in that basin as flooding, poor water quality of the creek and disability in basic sanitation, especially in neighborhoods that have been recently occupied, without proper planning or neighborhoods with intense demand for services without a satisfactory offer. This research also sought to examine the relationship of diseases related to sanitation with Index Environmental Health (ISA), created by Range (2013), in addition to observing the time series of diseases, most affected neighborhoods and relationship of each disease with each four indicators calculated in the previous survey (IAB, IES, ICR and IDU). One of the difficulties encountered in this research was the dissonance between data offered by different institutions, with respect to the coverage area of each piece of information (the availability of health data by district rather than by census tract). The survey revealed that the number of injuries reported in the Municipal Health Secretary of Maceió, is not correlated to the ISA of each neighborhood, suggesting therefore that for the ISA to reveal more accurately the environmental health of neighborhoods, other secondary and tertiary indicators should be included, in addition to more specific and listed on the population data. The mapping carried out in this research may support the organs responsible for the health and sanitation of the analyzed neighborhoods, promote interventions in order to reduce the number of occurrences and improve sanitation conditions of the hardest hit neighborhoods, treating the problem in focus by prevention.