Saúde mental, direitos humanos e justiça ambiental: a ‘quimicalização da vida’ como uma questão de violação de direitos humanos decorrente da intoxicação institucionalizada

This study aims to analyze exposure to pesticides and harm to the health of workers on sugarcane plantations in Pernambuco. This participatory research was conducted in rural territories of five municipalities with a strong presence in sugarcane-planted areas. The primary data were produced in workshops with rural workers to construct a participatory rural diagnosis, analyzed through condensation of meanings, and interpreted in light of the theoretical framework of Latin American critical epidemiology. The results are presented in three sections: i) Flowchart of work on sugarcane plantations; ii) Exposure to pesticides used on crops; iii) Harm to worker’s health. We conclude that permanent exposure to pesticides involves working on sugarcane plantations and emerges from a historical and socio-environmental construct in which the ways of life of the territories under the control of sugarcane agribusiness are subsumed. Public policies are recommended to promote family farming with diversification, flow, distribution of agroecological production, and strengthening primary health care and integrated epidemiological, health, environmental, and worker surveillance actions.

Section: Source: Own Elaborationsupporting

confidence: 61%

Use of pesticides in Pernambuco sugarcane fields and damage to workers’ health

Domingues,

Gurgel,

Santos

et al. 2024

“…Somam-se a isso a ampla legalização da utilização de agrotóxicos e o consumo de alimentos industrializados no País, ambos afetando negativamente a saúde (física-mental) da população 6 .…”

Section: Introductionunclassified

O combate à fome na pandemia de covid-19: arranjos de cuidado em saúde mental em uma periferia paulistana

Silva,

Furtado,

Mendes

et al. 2024

RESUMO O retorno e o agravamento da fome na pandemia de covid-19 foram importantes retrocessos vividos pela população brasileira nos últimos anos, fruto de uma gestão governamental pautada na necropolítica, que se recusou a olhar e produzir políticas públicas destinadas às populações em situação de vulnerabilidades. O ato de comer, em si, é um produtor de saúde (física-mental), que foi negado a grande parte da população durante a pandemia. A presente pesquisa, produzida a partir da metodologia cartográfica, teve por objetivo investigar os arranjos de cuidado em saúde mental produzidos nos territórios, em comunidade, no bairro de Heliópolis, periferia da capital paulista. Entre os principais achados, destacam-se arranjos para ampliar a oferta de alimentos, resgate da importância política dos indivíduos residentes do território, marchas denunciando a situação da fome na periferia, bem como partilhas afetivas de histórias mediadas pela partilha da comida. Tais ações demonstram a importância do ato de comer como promotor de saúde (física-mental) e ressaltam a relevância das relações produzidas e mediadas pela comida. A luta pela alimentação e seu compartilhamento, em um cenário de desmonte político e retorno da fome no País, apresentou-se como uma forma de resistência e de enfrentamento coletivo à necropolítica.

“…In addition to this, the widespread legalization of pesticides and the consumption of industrialized foods are practices promoted by the country, both negatively affecting the health (physical and mental) of the population 6 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The battle against hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic: mental health arrangements in a favela at São Paulo

Silva,

Furtado,

Mendes

et al. 2024

The return and worsening of hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic were important setbacks experienced by the Brazilian population in recent years, as a result of a necropolitics form of government, which refused to look at and offer public policies aimed at vulnerable populations. The act of eating, in itself, is a promoter of (physical and mental) health, which has been denied to a large part of the population during the pandemic. This research, based on cartography method, aimed to investigate arrangements of mental health produced in the communities, in Heliópolis, a favela in São Paulo. Among the main findings, we highlight arrangements to expand the food supply, rescue the political importance of individuals residing in the territory, marches denouncing the situation of hunger in the favelas, as well as affective sharing of stories mediated by the sharing of food. These actions show the importance of the act of eating as a promoter of (physical and mental) health and highlight the importance of the relationships produced and mediated by food. The fight for food and its sharing, in a scenario of political dismantling and return of hunger in the country, presented itself as a form of resistance and collective confrontation to necropolitics.