Educação ambiental no processo de territorialização em saúde do município de Santa Cruz Cabrália / BA

Abstract

Environmental Education emerges as one of the possible ways to raise awareness and bring changes in the way society sees and deals with environmental problems. Thus, fostering this process for Community Health Agents - ACS in the municipality of Santa Cruz Cabrália - BA is significant in building critical thinking for changing attitudes in the relationship between society and the environment. These subjects exercise their work activity in contact with the community, establishing a bond and assuming an important role in health promotion in a living territory that undergoes constant changes. In this sense, this project had as its general objective: to provoke a critical position in the Community Health Agents of the Municipality of Santa Cruz Cabrália - BA on the living conditions, human and environmental health of its territory of professional performance through socio-environmental educational processes (Education Environmental). And as specific objectives: Characterize the field and the study scenario regarding environmental variables from the perspective of the research subjects; Identify obstacles and / or challenges present in the development of a training process in Environmental Education for Health Territorialization; Train the team of Community Health Agents in the municipality on the present, latent and potential risks of the Territory in Health; Analyze to what extent the understanding of Community Health Agents has changed with the environmental education process carried out. The investigation was carried out after the consent of the responsible and participating bodies. Qualitative approach methodologies were used in an action research with the development of a course with six workshops with the CHA to mobilize in the construction of social practices that allow an effective contribution to collective life in the territory through socio-environmental educational processes in the work process. The results analyzed were important for understanding the phenomenon studied and were encouraged to improve their practices, aiming to contribute to improving the quality of life of the municipal population. The subjects are able to provoke direct interventions, strengthening the other social actors in the promotion of critical environmental education in health