Lixão de Santo André: ocorrência de doenças em moradores ao seu entorno

Abstract

Throughout its history, Brazil has suffered from the problem of open dumps, although LEI. 12,305, which establishes the National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS) comes into force in 2010, there has been little progress in final destination of the waste, thus causing problems that even today are far from being solved. This work aimed to evaluate the health status of the residents of the Santo André neighborhood, Santarém, Pará. This is a descriptive and quantitative study conducted between June 2017 and February 2018. Data were collected from a previously prepared and approved questionnaire and from the Family Health Strategy (ESF) charts of the neighborhood. The research showed a socioeconomic profile characterized by adult women with full secondary education with their own dwelling and did not work, most of the families are composed of 4 or more of 5 people, living with a minimum wage and with the help of government benefits, such as for example the family purse. Although they are located near the dump, they are satisfied and do not intend to move, but they report the presence of mosquitoes, which can be directly related to occurrences of diseases such as viral, dengue and cough. It is concluded that the relationship of the dump with the residents near it in the neighborhood is a reflection on the current situation of the dump, since it is deactivated and has a propitious terrain for the proliferation of vectors such as mosquitoes, leading them to are vulnerable to diseases such as viruses and dengue, causing this population characterized in the socioeconomic profile to seek the health post to seek health aids reporting symptoms such as headache, fever, skin blemish and cough.