A promoção da saúde ambiental e as práticas sociais em Vila Dois Rios, Ilha Grande, RJ: a contribuição da educação ambiental na criação de ambientes favoráveis à saúde

Abstract

The research entitled “Environmental Health Promotion and Social Practices in Vila Dois Rios, Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro: the contribution of Environmental Education in the creation of environment favorable to health” was developed in Vila Dois Rios, in the Center of Ambient Studies and Sustainable Development (CEADS) of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro. The Methodology predominantly qualitative was adopted, consisting of a case study, with some traces of ethnographic research. The data had been collected through the participant observation, interviews, forms and documentary analysis. The research was engaged in answering the following question: considering the social practices in Vila Dois Rios, is it possible, through the Environmental Education to create an environment favorable to health and to the promotion of the environmental health? The objective was to characterize the local community; to identify and to analyze the social practices of the different social actors; to signalize possible conflicts and its consequences in health; to argue the importance of the implementation of public politics and communitarian actions directed toward Health Promotion and to determine the contributions of the Environment to health. The obtainable results had stood out the urgency of the implementation of a Program of Environmental Education in Vila Dois Rios that, considering the perspectives, principles and objectives of the Environmental Education and the Environmental Health, be capable of articulating views and to develop actions towards the creation of favorable environments to health. The research also called the attention to the necessity of the understanding the Environmental Health as a transdisciplinar field of study and praxis, besides standing out that, either in Vila Dois Rios or in any another locality, only from the exposition, comprehension and integration of the social practices of the different social actors and the joint action in the formularization and implementation of public politics that attend local particularities, considering the global interconnections, it will be possible to find a way towards the Promotion of the Environmental Health.