PERCEPÇÃO DOS MORADORES DA VILA MUTIRÃO, REGIÃO NOROESTE DE GOIÂNIA, SOBRE A RELAÇÃO AMBIENTE E SAÚDE

Abstract

Understanding the factors that influence health has widened its concept, and has contributed to a vision of complexity involving physical, economic, social, cultural, individual and collective aspects, that are interrelated and distributed in time and space, as socio-historically built phenomena. This study examined the relationship between environment and health from the perception of the residents of Village Mutirão in the Northwestern region of Goiânia. The method was correlational. Participants were chosen randomly among the inhabitants of the region that lived in the region for over ten years. The sample comprised 140 women and 30 men who answered a questionnaire with open and closed questions. The data showed that most of the participants were sedentary, with health problems (hypertension and diabetes) and unsatisfied with public health services and transportation. Statistical analysis of data collected indicates a median index of well being of residents since they move to the neighborhood and a median sense of community. Taken together, these results show that the determinants of health such as housing, security, transport, social support and leisure activities, was identified as elements which are correlated with the welfare and quality of life, and that interfere with the health of a community.