El enfoque de vulnerabilidad en los Sistemas de Información en Salud Ambiental: aplicación de la Metodología Diagnóstica del Riesgo de la Vivienda para la Salud (DRVS) en Belém, Brasil

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Saude soc.

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2015-12

RESUMO

Abstract This study is carried out within the Inter-American Network of Healthy Housing framework, supported by OPS / OMS, and it springs from the need to strengthen national and local systems of environmental health control and monitoring so as to identify social inequalities and to promote alternative forms that foster the development of the Latin American region. With this objective in mind, the study offers a device for the analysis of social vulnerability and housing risk to health which generates a diagnostic methodology called Diagnóstico del Riesgo Vivienda para la Salud (DRVS) - Diagnosis of Housing Risk to Health- and the related software called Riesgo de la Vivienda para la Salud (RVS v3.0) - Housing Risk to Health, which is based on neuronal networks and fuzzy variables. The risk is analyzed by considering not only the expected physical damage, but also the social, organizational and institutional processes related to the development of communities. At the level of housing units, vulnerability is studied as an internal risk process related to exposure to the material context, social fragilitiy, and resilience of the population prone to this, which is associated with the capacity for response and recovery. The application of DRVS at the city of Belém is going to be presented and described within this framework, and it will show that the analysis of social vulnerability enables a holistic understanding of the housing risk to health.

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