Environmental factors that trigger risk to health in the city of Capão do Leão/RS

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Aline Cristina Calçada de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Gabrieli da Cunha
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Monografias Ambientais
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/remoa/article/view/12836
• topic: Environmental Sanitation; Zoonosis prevention measures; Saneamento Ambiental; Zoonoses; Medidas de prevenção

The existence of adequate sanitation is an essential requirement for the protection of human health, as well as critical to environmental protection measure. In Brazil the diseases resulting from lack or inadequacy of sanitation, especially in poor areas, have compounded the epidemiological picture. In Rio Grande do Sul, from the 496 cities, only 41% have sewage disposal system, and a smaller slice still treats collected sewage: 15 % . In this context lies the city of  Capão do Leão, where the supply of potable water is provided by a state company and sewage is collected in mixed network without final treatment. This study is justified as a management tool in helping to build a healthy environment in the city of Capão do Leão, and aimed to survey the diseases related to environmental factors that affected the population of Capão do Leão in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, as well as to give an overview of the current status of environmental sanitation in the city and diagnose the main environmental factors that can cause health problems to the local people. Through the analysis of the data obtained, it is concluded that the population of Capão do Leão is mainly exposed to zoonosis, excreta-related diseases and diseases via fecal-oral transmission. We found that, like in most cities, in Capão do Leão environmental sanitation is still far from ideal, as it lacks infrastructure items for the prevention of diseases related to environmental factors. The  Local  Sanitation Plan has been structured, which must contribute to advances in environmental sanitation in the coming years.