Banca de DEFESA: ANTÔNIO PEREIRA CARDOSO DA SILVA FILHO

SPACE AND HEALTH: A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS ABOUT HEALTH SITUATION IN CAMPINA GRANDE-PB

Health, Geography of Health, Indicators, Areas of Primary Care in Health, Campina Grande-PB

This research starts from the thesis that the different spatial combinations are that determine the health situations of the population. It is argued that health is present everywhere, but at different levels of manifestation. what determines these levels is the spatial situation that, selectively, reproduces a set of elements of health promotion in parts of the city, while in others it is externalized as a health threat. For this reason, the purpose of this work is to analyze the health situation through indicators and variables proposed and analyzed geographically. So, the overall goal is to understand the combination of elements that explain the different health situations in Campina Grande-PB. The areas delimited by Primary Care in Health in the city. The possibility of studying health from a positive perspective of your existence; the proposition of geographically designed health indicators (equity, supportability and feasibility); the perspective of understanding the health phenomenon from of more homogeneous observation scales in urban surveys are some of the most relevant issues brought up in this text. As for the research methodology, initially, a broad bibliographic and documentary survey was taken into account. THE empirical research, in turn, was organized through a variety of techniques of collection of information and data, as well as specific analysis procedures. With Based on this context, it became clear that it is only possible to analyze and compare situations through the combination of variables associated with different indicators. It was found that the research areas did not have the same classification for all the variables linked to equity as a health indicator, were neither good nor bad. classified in all cases, but it was the combination of all variables that justified the levels of the health situation. If this assessment was from one or another isolated variable, the result would be completely different and far from reality understood in a relational way.