Banca de DEFESA: MONIQUE HELLEN DE SOUZA SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MONIQUE HELLEN DE SOUZA SILVA
DATE: 29/09/2021
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

CONTRIBUTIONS TO HEALTH PROMOTION FROM THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF THE HEALTHY CITY INDEX IN NATAL/RN

KEY WORDS:

Healthy city. Index. Health promotion. Quality of life. Socio-environmental factors. Natal.

PAGES: 161
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SPECIALTY: Geografia Urbana
SUMMARY:

The Healthy Cities Movement (HCM), emerged in the 1970s in Canada, as a corollary of a set efforts by this country, the World Health Organization (WHO) and its regional offices to outline estrategies of health promotion, quality of life, and urban development based on the concept of health as a social product. This conception is at the essence of the MCS, which reflects a change in the perspective of facing public health problems that worsened in the late 20th century. This conception is at the heart of the MCS and reflects a change in the perspective of dealing with public health problems that worsened in the late twentieth century. As a result of this new perspective international organizations, researchers and urban managers realized that investment in the health sector alone would not be enough to eliminate the harmful effects of factors that generate social inequalities and the precariousness of urban infrastructure (environmental factors) on the state of health and disease of the population. Therefore, the importance of the process of identification and characterization of socio-environmental factors in the urban space is highlighted through the construction of indexes and indicator systems. Based on these assumptions, this research has the main objective to analyze the Natal /RN city condition on the perspective of propose an index and levels of Healthy City. To achieve this purpose bibliographic research, documentary research, the production of graphics, charts and the application of the Multistributive Statistical Multiple Use Model (MAU) were used as methodological proceedings. The application of these proceedings identified an ICS of 694 and an Average Level of Healthy City for Natal, as results of the research. It was found that the ICS value was, to a large extent, positively influenced by the scores of the Health, Demographic and Basic Sanitation dimensions that reached high scores. However, it was the socioeconomic dimension that had the greatest impact on the index because of its low values, showing the socioeconomic inequality in Natal. Nevertheless, the analysis of these results demonstrates that the city of Natal still has significant vulnerabilities in terms of health, sewage and solid waste treatment, education, work and income. Considering these facts, it is understood that the city of Natal is still far from ensuring the health conditions and quality of life necessary to become a healthy city. This facts reaffirms the imminence of developing and strengthening actions, programs and public policies for the prevention and treatment of reportable diseases, for the elimination of arboviruses, to expansion of coverage of healthcare teams, medical procedures and infrastructures that integrate Primary Care. Measures to combat mortality, population imbalance and aging, articulated to initiatives of universalize basic sanitation and reduce precarious conditions of income, work and education, are equally relevant to promote in Natal city, healthier urban conditions in the future.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 350836 - IONE RODRIGUES DINIZ MORAIS
Interno - 1803535 - ADRIANO LIMA TROLEIS
Interno - 3060741 - HUGO ARRUDA DE MORAIS
Externo à Instituição - SAMUEL DO CARMO LIMA - UFU