Saneamento ambiental e sua importância para a saúde

Abstract

It addresses the relevance of Environmental Sanitation to society. The absence of sanitation impacts on nature, consequently on living beings. It understands that its deficiency causes disruption to the environment: in water, such as pollution in water resources, soil: with the use of chemicals, causing diseases such as diarrhea, respiratory diseases, factories, being large producers of garbage, landfills where the waste deposited generates the manure that, when it reaches the soil, contamination occurs; in the air: urban centers due to high concentration of sulfur dioxide. It demonstrates the direct association of sanitation to the health of the population, clarifying its indispensability. It shows the socio-environmental issue. Its objective is to demonstrate the relevance of environmental sanitation to the health of the population, as a preventive method of diseases, highlighting the need to care for the environment as a duty that includes all. Thus, it is extremely important to emphasize basic sanitation as being a fundamental part of the existence of a healthy population and a healthy environment.