Environmental health

responsiveness of an investigative process and the construction of knowledge

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https://doi.org/10.35699/2237-5864.2015.2017

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Epistemology, Environmental health, Education

Abstract

In Brazil, the term “environmental health” is defined by the Ministry of Health as an area of public health, with scientific knowledge, engaged in the formulation of public policies related to the interaction between human health and the factors of the natural environment. Like other specific areas of teaching and education, we seek to further consolidate this movement for qualifying this knowledge in order to become responsive the assisted population. The objective was to build a participatory research route with the investigated environment, which would enable the understanding on Science and Society. Keeping critical look on such move, we understand that the investigative methods and their significance means while building knowledge for development are under a tension of opposing forces: nature and society. So this investigative process led us to question this nature that the protagonists put in their speeches, building meaningful paths to corporate improvements.

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Author Biography

Fábio Luiz Quandt, Instituto Federal Catarinense (IFC), Blumenau, SC,Brasil.

Possui graduação em Ciências Biológicas (2008) pela Universidade da Região de Joinville (Univille), mestrado (2012) e doutorado (2014) em Saúde Coletiva pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Atualmente é professor do Instituto Federal Catarinense (IFC). Tem experiência na área de Ciências Ambientais, atuando principalmente nos temas: saúde ambiental, educação ambiental e saúde coletiva.

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2016-01-07

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QUANDT, F. L. Environmental health: responsiveness of an investigative process and the construction of knowledge. Revista Docência do Ensino Superior, Belo Horizonte, v. 5, n. 2, p. 153–182, 2016. DOI: 10.35699/2237-5864.2015.2017. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rdes/article/view/2017. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2015)

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