Saúde pública no contexto da urbanização do “Vale” do Reginaldo em Maceió

Abstract

The Geography of Health has been playing an important role in society, since its objective is not only to map the origin and spread of diseases, but also to politically analyze the situation to which society is being subjected. Seeking to mitigate solutions to global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the biggest health crisis, given the number of deaths and even leveraged an economic crisis that was already being consolidated with the current economic policy, which has been aggravating social inequality , with denialism and contempt for the life of the current president of Brazil. In this sense, it is pertinent to discuss the regionalization of the SUS and how Public Health has been implemented as a 4 management strategy. Making a study of the functioning and the norms that regulate the SUS in the three spheres of power. Using a qualitative methodology, through the systemic approach with theoretical basis of some authors such as Capra (1982), Faria and Bortolozzi(2013), Guimarães(2015), Matta(2021) and Sen(2002). What guided the field research, in the sense of collecting data that materialized the theory and practice of the relationship between health, environment and city, considering human occupation. With the objective of understanding the theoretical contributions of the Geography of Health, analyzing the territorialization of the Basic Health Units in the surroundings of the “Vale” do Reginaldo, considering the principles of the SUS. To understand the logic of access to health in a community that is in social vulnerability, constituted by a working class that depends on the public health system. Assessing the need for political mobilization of social movements, civil society and the University, to claim and guarantee access to health in accordance with the principles guaranteed by the 1988 Constitution, which are equity, integrality and universality.