Salubridade ambiental: método de análise territorial a partir da conjugação de fatores socioambientais

Abstract

The social welfare is a widely discussed topic and the proposals for data application and production of spatially representative indexes are recurrent. The access to sanitation services and their implications on the environment; a medical care and epidemiological occurrences observed by public health; and possibilities of insert people in the society contributes to the characterization the quality of life. In this context the concept salubrity appears. The theme incorporates different dimensions and enables a combined analysis. The discussion about the hygiene condition at different scales is valid: national or watershed cases. In this research there is a hypothesis that a methodology built from the theoretical discussion and multivariate statistics can synthesize the environmental salubrity: a concept directly related to geodemographic factors. The treatment of territorial units data and synthesis of the result in the form of mapping confirmed that the obtained indicator is compatible with the local observations. This proves the application of the methods and opens up an enriching debate for integrated planning.