As expressões da questão da saúde em contexto de conflito ambiental: vozes de um território ameaçado pela possível implantação da mineração de urânio e fosfato no Sertão Central do Ceará

Abstract

This research lectures on health expressions in a context of environmental conflicts related to mining of uranium and phosphate in the interior of Ceará involving rural communities, the Brazilian Nuclear Industry - INB and Galvani undertaking forming part of the Consortium Santa Quiteria. Health risks, changes in lifestyles and joints of social movements and communities in defense of their territory, their culture and common goods, make up the motivations for the study and deepening of the energy issue in the context of the development model capitalist to reflect how the health dimension is expressed in the context of conflict from the perspective of communities. Thus, the research aims to describe how the health dimension has been expressing in the territory threatened by mining. This description will be based on three key moments of the core approach period with the above environmental conflict: post-doc territorial health project; the construction of the academic / folk panel and its contribution to the technical opinion against the health of the EIA / RIMA; and the systematization of the health issue of expressions recorded in research and extension activities carried out by the Center. We assume that the various forms of health expression has a peculiarity when in an environmental conflict situation caused by the deployment of a large enterprise. And for unraveling these issues and understand how this dimension arises from the territory used as a methodology participatory research and documentary research. From the Environmental Impact Study and Environmental Impact Report delivered to IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) the concern of the population regarding the health impacts was exposed, specifically concerns related to radiation, demand for more information in this regard as well as on possible environmental contamination (soil, water, air and vegetation). The defense health design built from the ways of life in the field, the struggle in defense of nature and the territory; understanding the risks arising from the implementation of the project; the relationship with health policies; the follow-up strategies of social and territorial transformations, are factors that lead communities to defense actions of their health, or as they put it: the defense of life itself.