A expansão urbana de Montes Claros e suas implicações na ocorrência de doenças de veiculação hídrica

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Magalhães, Sandra Célia Muniz
• Orientador(a): Carvalho, Marcos Bernardino de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Geografia
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Impactos ambientais; Doenças de veiculação hídrica; Agua > Poluicao > Montes Claros, MG; Geografia ambiental > Montes Claros, MG; Saneamento > Montes Claros, MG; Urbanizacao > Montes Claros, MG
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Urbanization; Environmental impacts; Environmental geography; Sanitation; Water-born diseases
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12338

The occurrence of diseases that spread through water due to factors related to sanitation matters, specially the dumping of sewage in nature, has been an increasing concern of society. Thus, it is important to make safe information become available about the areas of occurrence of these diseases, as well as the variables which interfere on its incidence, for a later action of the competent organizations. The goal of this work is to know the relation between the basic sanitation conditions and the incidence of diseases propagated through water in Montes Claros-MG. For that there was a characterization of the urban growth of Montes Claros, assessing its sanitation management, identifying the water-born diseases predominant in this city and also analyzing the basic sanitation conditions of the main areas of incidence. The research intends to subsidize basic sanitation public policies in Montes Claros, serving also as subside for future researches. In order to answer the purposes of the research, firstly it was made a bibliographic and cartographic review on the theme approached, as well as the gathering of secondary data using as reference source The Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística IBGE, Fundação Osvaldo Cruz FIOCRUZ, The Centro de Zoonoses of Montes Claros, Companhia de Saneamento de Minas Gerais - COPASA and Secretaria Municipal de Saúde - SMS, among others. The areas of major incidences of diseases were mapped and there were field work in these areas with interviews of the leaders representative. There were also interviews with the representative of the Sanitation sector of Montes Claros. From the approaches it was concluded that the incidence water-born diseases is due to the fast urban expansion of the city in the last decades associated with the lack of public policies for these areas, mainly in relation to infrastructure of basic sanitation, for the lack of water is common in the districts. The floods which have occurred in the city as well as the amount of garbage filling up the sewers in all districts bring about inconveniences and illnesses to the population. All these problems points to the necessity of a reevaluation of the actions which have guided the responsible sectors for these issues in the City of Montes Claros