Indicadores de sustentabilidade ambiental e de saúde na Amazônia Legal, Brasil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública

Carlos Machado De Freitas²  Leandro Luiz Giatti¹ 

[1] ,Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca Rio de Janeiro,Brasil

关键词: Environmental Indicators;    Health Indicators;    Sustainability Indicators;    Environmental Health;    Indicadores Ambientais;    Indicadores de Saúde;    Indicadores de Sustentabilidade;    Saúde Ambiental;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-311X2009000600008

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

One of the challenges for public health is to build systems of indicators that allow monitoring current conditions and trends in environmental and health sustainability. This article focuses on the Legal Amazonia macro-region, which has undergone profound socioeconomic, environmental, and health changes since the mid-20th century. The conceptual framework adopted here was the model entitled Driving Forces, Pressures, State, Exposure, Effects, and Action (DPSEEA) proposed by the World Health Organization and adopted for environmental health surveillance by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The results show that numerous motor forces and pressures have contributed to the growth of the economy and the population, as well as to improvements in some traditional health indicators (a reduction in infant mortality and an increase in life expectancy), alongside major social and economic inequalities and heterogeneity in environmental health impacts. This same process has been accompanied by environmental changes that indicate an unsustainable development model for present and future generations, demanding comprehensive action by public health and environmental institutions.

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