Health and Environment - historical, theoretical and reflections for public policies in Environmental Health Surveillance in Brazil.

Abstract

The relationship between health and the environment within the jurisdiction of the Unified Health System is challenging the collective care in connection with the identification, prevention, control and recommendations of processes involved in human exposure to environmental situations that generate impact and negative consequences to human health. The reflections about the environmental health surveillance (EHS), its historical, concept, theory and methodological alternatives that generate information for decision making and includes interpretation and transformation of reality Chances are the objectives addressed in this essay. From an exploratory research on Environmental Health Surveillance in Brazil, their practices and theories, a review of the surveillance was carried out in environmental health in Brazil, and its theoretical and historical context. The object of Environmental Health Surveillance is the relationship ecological social environment, health and sustainability, and we must move forward and think of the analysis of environmental health situation as axis discussing its object producing quality information for the joint intervention and democratic health as having the value it brings the discussion of sustainability, equity, with the incorporation of a social policy that interacts conditioning the economic and social development.