Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-13T17:10:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AdrianaCSR_DISSERT_1_a_107.pdf: 5386731 bytes, checksum: bbb360d734e58b7d98b49629c9bcb479 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-22 / The state of health and sanitation in the city de Galinhos/RN is alarming, considering that access to public water supply and sanitation is absent. This condition is further exacerbated by the demand of that area as a tourist destination, especially to celebrate the festivities as the carnival, catholic festival and activities of summer. The city population growth, at times above cited, carries the collapse of poor sanitation system. The work now directs the foregoing discussion to the links between health, sanitation and environment, understood as built environment. In this context, the understanding of socio-sanitary conditions of the council is essential in the process of examining the actions of human rebut on the quality of life of local people. Thus, we developed the analysis of primary and secondary data, to conduct a holistic analysis of the health and sanitation in the city in the existing scenario. We verified, in the course of the research, that the conditions for solve part of the problem are already evident. However, the lack of political and popular demobilization contribute to the maintenance of the status quo / A situa??o da sa?de e do saneamento b?sico no munic?pio de Galinhos/RN ? alarmante, tendo em vista que o acesso ao sistema p?blico de abastecimento de ?gua e esgotamento sanit?rio inexiste. Essa condi??o ? agravada ainda mais pela procura da referida ?rea como destino tur?stico, principalmente em comemora??o a festejos como o carnaval, festa da padroeira e atividades de veraneio. O crescimento da popula??o do munic?pio em foco, nos momentos supracitados, provoca um colapso no deficit?rio sistema de saneamento b?sico. O trabalho ora exposto direciona a discuss?o para as rela??es existentes entre sa?de, saneamento e meio ambiente, entendido como meio ambiente constru?do. Nesse contexto, a compreens?o das condi??es s?cio-sanit?rias do munic?pio ? essencial no processo de an?lise dos rebatimentos das a??es antr?picas sobre a qualidade de vida da popula??o local. Assim, desenvolvemos a an?lise dos dados secund?rios e prim?rios, procurando realizar uma an?lise hol?stica das condi??es de sa?de e saneamento existentes no munic?pio em tela. Constatamos, no decorrer da pesquisa, que as condi??es para equacionamento de parte do problema evidenciado j? existem. Todavia, a falta de interesse pol?tico e a desmobiliza??o popular contribuem para a manuten??o do status quo