Teias de um observatório para a saúde das populações do campo, da floresta e das águas no Brasil

Abstract

The National Policy on Comprehensive Health of Populations in Rural recognizes the historical debt of the Brazilian State with the health of these populations, presents the need to overcome the economic and social development model in the search for responsible man-nature relations that promote health. As a result of implementation of this policy, aiming its monitoring and evaluation, an observatory –called OBTEIA – was created in 2012. This paper aims to present the experience of the Observatory, focusing its methodological process and the main results. It has been built around a Web of Knowledge and Practices, which involves social movements, academy and managers / workers of the Unified Health System. The focus of action has been to visualize this population through an interactive portal on the Internet (www.saudecampofloresta.unb.br), collection and processing of information, news, studies, videos, books. Besides, it promotes debates about referential and critical research methods consistent with the way of life of these populations. This experience has enabled the involvement and political recognition of distinct groups, and became a strategy to strengthen and improve the production of information able to trigger actions and decisions for populations of field, forest and water.