Abstract:Brumadinho with hundreds of deaths and affected dozens of other municipalities with the tailings mud and its contaminants along the Paraopeba River, we began to prepare this special issue of the journal 'Saúde em Debate', with the theme: Development, Disasters, and Emergencies in Public Health. Our initial objective was to combine academic research and public debate on different types of disasters and health emergencies, including climate emergencies, in the same number. Although interconnected, these events a… Show more
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