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Health and environmental health warning: to construct and resignify references

This writing aimed to discuss Environmental Health and Primary Care health based on social constructionism. With a multidisciplinary team in Basic Health Units (BHUs), primary care is to organize a population, constructing an integrative relational environment between users and health professionals. The Environmental Health in Primary inserted builds up under a naturalizing and producer of a fallacious morality discourse. Currently, the paradigm that gives sustenance to the current science is organized under assumptions of modernity, and what is outside of this standard will be considered abnormal. This modern conception implied a moral which postulates the "must be" in human relations, aiming models of morality based on facts obtained from empirical knowledge, metaphysics and construction of ideal standards. Society tends to create an idea of the nature and the environmental ideal, linking systems, managing and enforcing limits. Thus, companies end up lifting one of the structures that shape their culture (health care, economic development and education) to their representation influenced by time and space where they were conceived. Therefore, seek criticality in natural phenomena is urgent for the extended singular care and environmental health.

environmental health; public health; primary health care


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