Assessment of the efficiency of the basic sanitation services on the combat to the endemics in the counties of the State of Tocantins

• Autor(a) principal: Firmino Valdevino, Adriano Araújo
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Medeiros, Júlio César Lima, Nascimento, Adriano Paixão, Pessôa, Aurélio Picanço
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informe Gepec (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/gepec/article/view/3490
• topic: Saneamento Básico; Saúde Pública; Análise Envoltória de Dados.

The endemic combat related to the life conduction (each as, diarrhea, leptospirosis, cholera, trachoma etc.) is the priority of the actual health politic of SUS. Many of this endemics are related to the precariousness or no services of basic sanitation. In front of the benefits evidences of the sanitation services in Public Health, it become necessary that the planning and the acting of the health politics and the intervention starting from the sanitation are considered in both ways and compassed, being an strategy of Public Health preventive and social. The objective of this work is evaluate the basic sanitation services of the Tocantins’ counties as its efficiency to the endemics combat related to the lack or precariousness of this services, specially the endemics of hydrics linked. Starts from the hypothesis of the number of cases of this diseases is negativity related with the conditions verified in the basic sanitation area. To the realization of this study it has been used the Methodology Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the efficiency of the counties on the combat to the endemics starting from the services of basic sanitation in 2006. The results have pointed to a reality characterized by the precariousness of the services in basic sanitation.