Abstract
Environmental awareness is emerging in society, and with this, managers, commercial activities, institutions and health services are no different, especially when there are legal environmental requirements related to monitoring and mandatory environmental management for its operation. This fact makes professions linked to environmental monitoring essential for carrying out these jobs in these services. Therefore, the objective of this study is to elucidate the participation of the ecologist working professionally in health services, more specifically in hospital units. The study is characterized as a qualitative research, it does not intend to achieve what is right or wrong, only to understand the reality of its actions and transformations. It was noticed that a hospital management signals as benefits for management the performance of the ecological professional, mainly in the development of actions on environmental issues: Waste from Health Services RSS, preparation of the Health Waste Management plan, monitoring of water quality, monitoring and control of pests and insects, assistance in epidemiological surveillance actions and monitoring and control of hospital infections, composting projects, recycling projects, solidarity economy, and continuing education actions such as training on RSS and biosafety, all of which are fundamental to fostering sustainability within the hospital environment. Considering this, the performance of the ecology professional in health units, innovative in hospital units, this can be an aggregator to the interdisciplinary model to seek environmental improvements considered complex, but that achieve a successfully hospital environmental management.
Highlights
The construction of knowledge and transformation of it in the environmental area reinforces the ecologist’s role in different fields of professional work activities
When talking about ecology in the health service, we think about epidemiological issues (SIQUEIRA, 2009)
In the field of environment and health, a space is opened for the work of the ecologist with agents of endemic diseases, that is, together with health professionals to develop actions by applying knowledge in an interdisciplinary holistic manner in search of combat, prevent, eradicate and carry out measures to control diseases caused by environmental imbalance
Summary
The construction of knowledge and transformation of it in the environmental area reinforces the ecologist’s role in different fields of professional work activities. Ecology represents a theme of interrelationships between living organisms and their environment. Ecology seeks to understand this challenge of uniting a complex and fragmented knowledge, but with its contribution in a totality, contemplating these fragments as a whole (RICKLEFS, 2003; MACIEL, 2018). In this context, we can mention that the first ecology course in Brazil emerged in 1975 at Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), and there are 7 undergraduate Ecology courses in the country, 69 postgraduate programs, academic masters, professional masters and 46 programs of doctorate (BRASIL, 2021). The birth of the course and its growth is due to the need for understanding and solving society's demands on ecological issues (LEFF, 2011)
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