Os grandes projetos e suas implicações na saúde de comunidades tradicionais em Barcarena-PA

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the implications of large health projects in traditional communities of Barcarena / Pa. The objective of this research was to analyze the relationship between the impacts of large companies on the health of the traditional communities of Barcarena, health conceptions and practices of traditional communities and those introduced by the modern state through health services. For that, an exploratory study was carried out, through ethnographic research, anchored to the contribution of the dialectical historical method. Thus, with the opening of the capitalist logic in the region of Barcarena, with the creation of the industrial pole, there was the unbridled exploitation of natural reserves, the appropriation of the suppression of pre-existing social and cultural relations to this logic, the suppression of the violation of rights of the traditional communities and rupture in the traditional identity of the residents, besides promoting, through the industrial activities present in the region and its environmental impacts, consequent situations of risk to the health of the populations through the contact with waters and soil inadequate for use that led to changes in the structure of local communities. Official public health has neither accompanied the quantity nor the complexity of the demand generated by the transformations in the municipality, according to the researches carried out, whereas traditional health practices have persisted and become forms of resistance, as affirmations of traditional identities and also as the coverage of public services are being made available.