HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS RELATED TO WATER BREAKING DISEASES IN THE POPULATION RESIDING IN THE BACANGA WATER BASIN IN SÃO LUÍS – MA

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ABSTRACT

In Brazil, basic sanitation constitutes a public health problem, contributing to the prevention of numerous diseases and environmental preservation. One of the goals of the Sustainable Development Goals is to achieve, by 2030, universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all. Human interventions on the environment can be observed in the Bacanga river basin, influencing the level of health of the population residing in the region. The relationship between the environment, basic sanitation and waterborne diseases makes it possible to identify the population's vulnerabilities to contracting diseases. The aim is to relate health, environment and coping by the resident population. As a hypothesis, human interventions have acted directly on environmental quality, and pollution directly interferes with the health of this population. The general objective was to analyze environmental risks and their impacts on the health of the population residing in the region. This is an ecological study, with a systemic approach, observational and descriptive research. The study population is based on secondary access and public domain data, extracted from the Hospital Information System, requiring approval by the Research Ethics Committee, and whose inclusion criteria were records of hospital admissions, with the main diagnosis of diarrhea and gastroenteritis of infectious origin. presumptive postal code within the limits of the basin, between 2020 and 2022. A heterogeneity in the distribution of diseases in the region was found, when evaluating the temporality and several points with a location bordering the territories of surrounding municipalities.