(Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, 2019-10-03) Melgueiro, Silvia Cordeiro; Costa, Max Adilson Lima
The huge amount of garbage produced daily by the urban population, which is transformed into environmental damage, worsens quality of life, produces ecological imbalance and a situation of discomfort regarding the generation and final destination of solid waste. Therefore, the general objective is to carry out surveys of possible damage to health caused to the community by the open-air dump near the Boa Esperança community in the Municipality of São Gbariel da Cachoeira. For this, data were collected from the questionnaire applied to the community involving adults and children and data collection was also carried out with the health agents of the Special Indigenous Sanitary District- Rio Negro (DSEI-RioNegro) who provide care in that community. . As a result of this research, it was observed that the open-air dump is improperly dumped, thus bringing numerous harm to the community of that community. Therefore, it is up to the awareness of the public bodies of the municipality for the removal of the dump from that location, as well as the awareness of the community, and the prevention taken for each one.
