Urbanização e saúde em Maceió AL : o caso dos bairros Vergel do Lago, Jacintinho e Benedito Bentes

Abstract

The rapid population growth and urban expansion of cities in Brazil left gaps in the process of urbanization. Basic services have been neglected by managers of public services like water supply and sanitation, the latter being one of the poorest urban services in the country. The importance of sanitation is evident when correlated with public health and the living space. The relationship is expressed by the number of occurrences of infectious and parasitic diseases related to inadequate sanitation and water resources situation and the environment. The city of Maceió has the services of water supply and sewerage services provided by the Sanitation Company of Alagoas, it currently serves approximately 85% and 27% of the population, among private and public bonds, respectively. The deficiency of the supply of these services has raised concern about the space inhabited by the population, with contamination of water bodies of the city and the incidence of diseases related to inadequate sanitation. Given the above, the objective of this study is to analyze the relationship of the lack of services for water supply and sanitation and the incidence of diseases related to inadequate sanitation and its impact on quality of life in the city of Maceio. Were technical visits and interviews with staff of the Company, in order to understand the systems used, their characteristics and areas served. For a survey of diseases related to inadequate sanitation in the city of Maceió visits were made to the Municipal Health Secretariat, where they obtained the occurrences of diseases reported by the county health units. Research shows that a deficiency in the supply of services of water supply and sanitation are risk factors for the population with regard to the incidence of diseases related to inadequate sanitation in Maceió, although these are not the only factors, management stormwater and solid waste, along with drainage and urban sanitation, allied health education and the environment are issues that cannot be disregarded.