Saneamento básico na ride grande Teresina e seus benefícios: relação com os índices de saúde, escolaridade e rendimento da população dos municípios

Abstract

Basic sanitation is important to society as a whole, as it involves water supply, sanitary sewage, urban cleaning, urban drainage, solid waste and rainwater management, essential elements for the full functioning of cities and their population, especially in the countryside health, education and productivity. However, its distribution to the population and its evolution over the years occurs unevenly and varies according to the social and economic conditions of each municipality. There is a portion of the population with and without sanitation, which causes a scenario of social inequality. The objective of this study was to verify that the supply of basic sanitation, at Ride Grande Teresina, is associated with the improvement of health, education and productivity of the population of the municipalities that make up the Integrated Development Region, showing that access to sanitation interferes with the quality of life, education and income of the population. The methodology used was based on a survey of secondary data from the Brazil Sanitation Panel, from the Trata Brasil Institute, composed of data from the National Sanitation Information System (SNIS), the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and the System's Informatics Department Health Service (DATASUS), based on the content analysis of data from the years 2010 and 2019, made available on the internet through its various publications, in addition to the use of geoprocessing techniques for making maps. The results obtained showed that there was an evolution in the supply of sanitation in the municipalities, which reflected positively in the indicators of health, education and productivity.