Territórios urbanos saudáveis: itinerários, vicissitudes e dialogias

Abstract

The present work is based on the reflection around some aspects, considered important, for the understanding of the notion of Healthy Urban Territories. Inserted in the epistemological context of a science committed to social transformation, the reflection here is part of an investigation - whose presuppositions coined in the scope of Collective Health - are placed in interaction with concepts outlined by other disciplines, and is organized under the research methodology the broader community of research and the shared production of knowledge. The emergence of the notion in question can be related to the combination of some significant processes in the history of social policies: the important Healthy Cities movement, initiated in Canada in the 1980s; of the expanded health project conceived by the Sanitary Movement from the second half of the 1970s, and partly consolidated with the SUS; and the currents of political theory - in some cases experienced - of processes of political-financial-operational decentralization of the management of public resources. It is important to highlight that the locus of the research that subsidizes this work takes place in the set of favelas of Manguinhos (for many, Manguinhos Complex), located in the northern region of the city of Rio de Janeiro, characterized as a territory vulnerable in its social, environmental dimensions , political and economic. In this way, the itinerary will highlight concepts of Healthy Urban Areas, highlighting the vicissitudes of Manguinhos as to the limits and possibilities of its experimentation, highlighting the subjects living in the territory in question.