A extensão universitária em uma comunidade no interior da Amazônia Brasileira

Abstract

The Brazilian Amazon is a territory with multiple specificities, with issues that need to be discussed. This article describes the activities of a university extension project, carried out with residents of a housing complex in the city of Santarém-Pará. This is action research, part of the extension project ‘‘promoting the health of residents of Residencial Salvação, through educational actions aimed at preventing the toxic effects of mercurial exposure’’. The activities took place between the months of September and October 2022 in the community's basic health unit. The actions developed took place in the duality of having to guide families, without causing damage to the way of eating, since in most communities, food is almost entirely made up of fish, making it essential to develop educational actions with social responsibility for the way of live in these communities and to reiterate the importance of consuming fish within a diversified diet.