Aplicação do indicador de salubridade ambiental (ISA) no município de Macaparana - PE

Abstract

Urban sanitation has the goal of preserving the quality of the environment, such as the quality of life and health of the population. The basic sanitation is a right of every citizen, ensured by Law No. 11,445, of January 5, 2007. It is possible to analyze the competence regarding the public policies applied to the municipalities for health conditions through the Environmental Salubrity Indicator (ISA), which aims to analyze the distributions regarding water supply, collection and treatment of sanitary sewage, solid waste collection, provision of data on diseases transmitted by vectors and urban drainage arrangement. This research is directed to the application of the ISA in Macaparana city located in the northern forest area of Pernambuco and has as one of the objectives to verify the conditions of sanitation distribution to assist the competent public agencies in the improvement of housing and environment where Macaparana’s citizens live today. The data collection to calculate ISA was made with the information provided by the Secretary of Environment and Health of the municipality, by the Pernambuco Sanitation Company (COMPESA) and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The final score of the Environmental Health Indicator was calculated from the indicators of second and third order, then was possible to identifier the salubrity condition of the city. Therefore, it’s possible to identify that the places without the right services of basic sanitation have unhealthy results. In that way, Macaparana presented a final score to ISA of 0,34 being classified as a situation of low salubrity, showing throw the found indicators the necessity of investments in the region's environmental sanitation