“Gente aqui não” saúde e participação social no licenciamento ambiental: o caso do pólo industrial e tecnológico da saúde (Eusébio, Ceará)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze how health was inserted within the environmental studies of the Industrial and Technological Pole of Health (PITS), in Eusebio (Ceará); and to verify, through action research, how health professionals and communities affected by impacts of large enterprises perceive the Environmental Impact Studies. As a methodology the health in the documents was analyzed through the Matrix of Analysis of environmental Impact Studies under the focus of family health, environment and work. In this monograph the matrix was adapted to work with more simplifiedstudies such as Environmental Feasibility Studies and with large enterprises that present significant impacts that are easier to prevent, such as the Industrial and Technological Poles of Health. A meeting was also held in March 2018 with PITS community and health professionals from the Area of Direct Influence (AID) to discuss what these studies are and what their importance is in decision-making and in the prevention of diseases. This meeting was recorded and later transcribed for being analysis using digital software “IRAMUTEQ”. Through the matrices, 93 evaluations were carried out regarding health aspects in the three environmental studies. It was found that 28 aspects of health analyzed were not contemplated, 33 were partially , while 32 of the aspects were considered. Through action research was understood the lack of information that health professionals and the community of the territory has about environmental studies. This contributes to a lower performance of participation in the construction of these documents that makes it unviable to diagnose unidentified environmental and health impacts in the original project. Thus, these results reflect a better planning for companies to adopt more and more health aspects in their environmental studies and that participation can be present in environment al licensing.