Relationships of perception of health risks by use of pesticides: A Man-Environment look.

Abstract

The use of agricultural pesticides is increasingly associated with public health problems and negative impacts on the environment, in addition to the lack of protective actions developed by Brazilian environmental agencies. Our objective in this study was to analyze the relationships in the process that lead to the perception of risk of damage to human health by the use of pesticides in the riverine farming communities of the São Francisco Valley, in Brazilian northeast. We carried out a qualitative literature review, using the Constructivist Grounded Theory applied to the review of published scientific articles. The elements in the perceptive process found were: 1) the environment; 2) conditioning factors; 3) the perception of the human body; 4) the memory; 5) socio-cognitive processing; 6) automatic response; 7) the decision process and 8) the behavior. Each of those elements and its relationships guide where the causes of an inadequate perception to resolve them.

Análise Comparativa Entre Dados Relacionados Ao Perfil Socioeconômico E Percepção Ambiental Na Ilha Do Fogo (Pe), Brasil

“…De acordo com Gruszka (2022), a percepção é a habilidade para captar, processar e entender a informação que nossos sentidos recebem através dos órgãos sensoriais, sendo essencial para a vida cotidiana permitindo compreender o ambiente. As interações entre os elementos da relação homem-natureza dão a informação que a percepção precisa para desenvolver o fenômeno do processo perceptivo (Silverio et al, 2023).…”