Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:27:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sonia Brasi Cruz.pdf: 428296 bytes, checksum: c40bbceb5bca69084826a46ee8b75d38 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-08-29 / Promoting subjective well-being is one of the issues of psychological science. The increase of longevity has made the development of studies about aging necessary, in order to understand this part of the population that is increasing all over the world. This research had the objective of investigating the factors which are responsible for subjective well-being that are pointed out in literature, from the point of view of participants who attend and who do not attend the university for the third age. The sample was composed by 92 participants, divided into two groups: 54 attended the university for the third age and 38 did not, and in this last group 15 were from a socio-recreational club and 23 from a catholic church. In each group two age spans have been considered: (a) from 41 to 60 years old; (b) from 61 to 80 years old and above. In the group that attended the university for the third age we had 96% of females, 65% of married people and 25% of widowed people; 55 % had finished elementary school, 53% were housewives and 95% were catholic. On the other hand, in the group that didn t attend the university for the third age, 64% were females and 36% males, 97% were married and there was no widow or widower, 45 % had finished college, 35% had a profession and 90% were catholic. We made use of a subjective well-being scale, elaborated for this study, which was composed of 36 items that investigate 6 areas: Life Fulfillment/ Happiness, Extroversion, Persistency/ Establishment of goals, Social Support/ Contact, Physical Health and Optimism, plus three extra open questions. Through variance analysis differences were found out with respect to the area of Health (favorable to the younger age span), Life Fulfillment/ Happiness (favorable to the group that didn t attend the university for the third age), school level (college educated participants presented higher scores) and in two areas of the scale when club vs. church participants were confronted. Positive correlation was found between all areas investigated by the scale in the group that attend the university for the third age. The analysis of the open questions revealed the importance of family, social and personal characteristics in subjective well-being. Attendance to the university for the third age was noted as a powerful factor to give a new sense to life. Other reasons to attend the university for the third age were: increasing social contact and learning new things. Data were also found that suggest the importance of two factors that have not been dealt with in this study: religion and widowhood. Attempting to better understand subjective well-being and ways to reach it should be a part of the studies dedicated to quality of life in adults and elderly people. / Promover o bem-estar subjetivo ? uma das preocupa??es da ci?ncia psicol?gica. Com o aumento da longevidade, estudos sobre o envelhecimento se fazem necess?rios para a compreens?o desta parcela da popula??o que est? aumentando no mundo todo. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar os fatores respons?veis pelo bem-estar subjetivo, apontados pela literatura, na vis?o de participantes que freq?entam e que n?o freq?entam a universidade para a terceira idade. A amostra foi composta de 92 participantes, divididos em 2 grupos: 54 freq?entavam a universidade para a terceira idade e 38 n?o, sendo que, destes ?ltimos, 15 pertenciam a um clube s?cio-recreativo e 23 a uma Igreja Cat?lica. Em cada grupo foram consideradas duas faixas et?rias: (a) de 41 a 60 anos; (b) de 61 a 80 anos e mais. No grupo que freq?entava a universidade para a terceira idade tivemos 96% do sexo feminino, 65% casados e 25% vi?vos; 55% terminaram o 1? grau, 53% do lar e 95% eram cat?licos. Em contrapartida, no grupo que n?o freq?entava a universidade para a terceira idade 64% eram do sexo feminino e 36% do sexo masculino; 97% casados, n?o sendo encontrados vi?vos; 45% terminaram um curso superior, 35% tinham uma profiss?o e 90% eram cat?licos. Foi utilizada uma Escala de bem-estar subjetivo, constru?da para este estudo, composta de 36 itens que investigam 6 ?reas: Satisfa??o com a vida / Felicidade, Extrovers?o, Persist?ncia / Estabelecimento de metas, Apoio/Contato Social, Sa?de f?sica e Otimismo, al?m de 3 quest?es abertas. Atrav?s da an?lise de vari?ncia foram encontradas diferen?as em rela??o ? ?rea Sa?de (favor?vel ? faixa et?ria mais nova), Satisfa??o com a vida/Felicidade (favor?vel ao grupo que n?o freq?entava a universidade para a terceira idade), n?vel de escolaridade (escolaridade superior apresentou m?dias mais altas) e em duas ?reas da escala (quando foram comparados os participantes de clube x igreja). Foi encontrada correla??o positiva entre todas as ?reas investigadas pela escala, no grupo que freq?enta a universidade para a terceira idade. A an?lise das quest?es abertas revelou a import?ncia de caracter?sticas pessoais, sociais e familiares no bem-estar subjetivo. A freq??ncia ? universidade para a terceira idade foi apontada como poderoso fator para se dar um novo significado ? vida. Outros motivos apontados para freq?entar a universidade: ampliar o contato social e aprender coisas novas. Tamb?m foram encontrados dados que sugerem a import?ncia de dois fatores n?o investigados neste estudo: religi?o e viuvez. Buscar compreender melhor o bem-estar subjetivo e maneiras de alcan??-lo devem fazer parte dos estudos dedicados ? qualidade de vida nos adultos e idosos.

Este trabalho apresenta um modelo de acompanhamento e atendimento de pacientes crônicos baseado nos conceitos de relacionamento de clientes utilizados nas empresas, mais especificamente aqueles presentes na tecnologia CRM (Customer Relationship Management). A esse modelo denominou-se Gestão do Relacionamento com o Paciente Crônico (GRPC). A tecnologia CRM é uma estratégia com ferramentas para implementar um programa de relacionamento e fidelidade entre o cliente/consumidor e o fornecedor. O modelo GRPC, ao utilizar o conceito de CRM no atendimento ao paciente, apresenta uma estratégia de acompanhamento e monitoramento de pacientes crônicos diferente da abordagem tradicional, muitas vezes baseada somente no tratamento da doença. Da mesma forma que o CRM consegue atingir os clientes dos mais variados níveis através dos seus canais de comunicação, neste modelo propõe-se utilizar a mesma tecnologia a fim de garantir um acompanhamento efetivo e adequado a todas as camadas populacionais. Para implementar o modelo GRPC propõe-se a criação de centrais de relacionamento de pacientes crônicos, que compõem a infra-estrutura do modelo ao combinar, de maneira adequada, a troca de informações, as campanhas, a transmissão e o processamento de dados, com a finalidade de melhorar o relacionamento com o paciente, através da tecnologia de telefonia e computação. Para uma avaliação preliminar do modelo, elaborou-se uma central de monitoração de pacientes diabéticos e desenvolveu-se um sistema de monitoração para diabéticos. A modelagem da central de monitoração foi feita utilizando-se a extensão da UML para a modelagem de negócio, o que permitiu analisar a abrangência do modelo. O sistema de monitoração, denominado TeleDM, foi desenvolvido visando a realizar as simulações necessárias para os estudos desse trabalho. A partir da modelagem de negócio elaboraram-se os modelos para o desenvolvimento do sistema. Após a avaliação de suas características optou-se por implementá-lo utilizando a tecnologia de orientação a agentes e objetos, o que permitiu verificar que tal combinação é adequada na solução de sistemas complexos com as características do sistema TeleDM. / This paper shows a chronic patient follow-up and attendance model based on the concepts of customers’ relationship used in the companies, mainly those existent in CRM technology (Customer Relationship Management). The model was designated as Chronic Patient Relationship Management (CPRM). The CRM technology is a strategy with tools to implement a relationship and fidelity program between the client / customer and the supplier. The CPRM model, by using the CRM concept on patient attendance, presents a strategy to follow-up and monitoring the chronic patient different from the usual traditional approach, which many times only consists in illness treatment. In the same way as the CRM, this model is able to reach clients of every condition through its communication channels; and suggests the use of the same technology in order to guarantee an effective and suitable follow-up for all social layers. To implement the CPRM model, the creation of relationship centers for chronic patients, thus building the model’s infrastructure when properly connecting the information exchange, campaigns, and data processing and transmitting, for the purpose of improving the relationship with the patient through telephone and computing technology. For a preliminary assessment of the model, a monitoring center was elaborated for diabetic patients, as well as a system for diabetes monitoring. The modeling of the center was done using the UML extension for business modeling, which allowed analyzing the model’s coverage. The monitoring system known, as TeleDM was developed to execute the simulations needed for this work’s studies. The models for the system’s development were elaborated from the business modeling. After evaluating its features, the choice was implementing it with agent and object-oriented technology, thus allowing checking this combination suitability for complex systems solution with the TeleDM system features.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:22:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Wu Chiang Kuo Navarro.pdf: 21368663 bytes, checksum: c7d461119b23797113e6b8c240bc26c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-10 / Noise pollution results from human activities and compromises population life quality and welfare. This creates public health problems and several social and economic negative effects on cities. This dissertation studies how urban morphology and architecture design interact and interfere with the soundscape of a place. This study also reviews strategies, plans, and measures to reduce the impact of noise in projects in Europe, Asia and Brazil. A case study is also presented where concepts and acoustic principles are applied to analyze the soundscape of Oscar Freire, a busy commercial street in São Paulo. / A poluição sonora é resultante das atividades humanas e compromete a qualidade de vida e o bem-estar da população, gerando problemas de saúde pública, além de ser responsável por efeitos negativos na econômica e na sociedade. A presente dissertação aborda de que forma elementos da morfologia urbana e do projeto arquitetônico interagem e interferem na paisagem sonora de um lugar. Este estudo apresenta, também, as estratégias de planejamento de ação e as medidas na redução de ruído aplicadas na Europa, na Ásia e no Brasil, e um estudo de caso com aplicação dos conceitos e fundamentos da acústica urbana na paisagem sonora da Rua Oscar Freire na cidade de São Paulo.

Magistro studijų baigiamasis darbas, 63 puslapiai, 20 paveikslų, 10 lentelių, 57 literatūros šaltiniai, 6 priedai, lietuvių kalba. Tyrimo objektas – kultūrinis turizmas kaip žmonių gyvenimo kokybės veiksnys. Tyrimo tikslas – įvertinti kultūrinio turizmo vystymo įtaką Jurbarko rajono gyventojų gyvenimo kokybei bei parengti kultūrinio turizmo vystymo stiprinimo priemonių planą, orientuotą į gyventojų gyvenimo kokybės gerinimą. Tyrimo uždaviniai: 1. Išanalizuoti gyvenimo kokybės ir kultūrinio turizmo teorinius dėsningumus. 2. Atlikti kultūrinio turizmo vystymo įtakos gyventojų gyvenimo kokybei empirinį tyrimą. 3. Pateikti Jurbarko rajono kultūrinio turizmo vystymo stiprinimo priemonių planą. Tyrimo metodai: mokslinės literatūros, dokumentų analizė ir sintezė, kokybinis vertinimas, anketinės apklausos ir pusiau struktūrizuoto interviu metodai, indukcija, dedukcija, grafinis vaizdavimas. Tyrimo rezultatai. Pirmoje darbo dalyje atlikta gyvenimo kokybės ir kultūrinio turizmo teorinių dėsningumų analizė: nustatyta, kad kultūrinis turizmas gyventojų gyvenimo kokybę teigiama arba neigiama linkme labiausiai įtakoja per socialinę, ekonominę, kultūrinę ir aplinkosauginę sritis. Antroje darbo dalyje, remiantis empiriniu kiekybiniu ir kokybiniu tyrimu, įvertinta kultūrinio turizmo vystymo įtaka Jurbarko rajono gyventojų gyvenimo kokybei. Trečioje darbo dalyje, remiantis teorinės analizės ir empirinio tyrimo rezultatais, parengtas kultūrinio turizmo stiprinimo priemonių planas, orientuotas į... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Final work of University Postgraduate studies: 63 pages, 20 figures, 10 tables, 57 references, 6 appendixes, in Lithuanian. Research object - cultural tourism as a factor of human life quality. Research aim – to estimate the impact of cultural tourism development on life quality of Jurbarkas district residents, to prepare plan for strengthening cultural tourism development, focused on improving residents’ life quality. Objectives: 1. To analyze the theoretical concepts of cultural tourism and quality of life. 2. To conduct empirical analysis of the impact of cultural tourism development on life quality of Jurbarkas district residents. 3. To provide plan of cultural tourism development strengthening, focusing on improving residents life quality. Research methods: analysis and synthesis of literature and documents, qualitative evaluation, questionnaire survey, semi-structured interview, induction, deduction, graphical representation. Research results. The first part analyzes theoretical concepts of cultural tourism and quality of life: cultural tourism impacts quality of human life in social, economic, cultural and environmental areas. The second part, on the basis of empirical quantitative and qualitative research, estimates the impact of cultural tourism on life quality of Jurbarkas district residents. The third part, on the basis of theoretical analysis and empirical research, prepares plan of cultural tourism development strengthening, focused on improving life... [to full text]

For railways, risk analysis is carried out to identify hazardous situations and their consequences. Until recently, classical methods such as Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA) were applied in modelling the linear and logically deterministic aspects of railway risks, safety and reliability. However, it has been proven that modern railway systems are rather complex, involving multi-dependencies between system variables and uncertainties about these dependencies. For train derailment accidents, for instance, high train speed is a common cause of failure; slip and failure of brake applications are disjoint events; failure dependency exists between the train protection and warning system and driver errors; driver errors are time dependent and there is functional uncertainty in derailment conditions. Failing to incorporate these aspects of a complex system leads to wrong estimations of the risks and safety, and, consequently, to wrong management decisions. Furthermore, a complex railway system integrates various technologies and is operated in an environment where the behaviour and failure modes of the system are difficult to model using probabilistic techniques. Modelling and quantification of the railway risk and safety problems that involve dependencies and uncertainties such as mentioned above are complex tasks. Importance measures are useful in the ranking of components, which are significant with respect to the risk, safety and reliability of a railway system. The computation of importance measures using FTA has limitation for complex railways. ALARP (As Low as Reasonably Possible) risk acceptance criteria are widely accepted as ’\'best practice’’ in the railways. According to the ALARP approach, a tolerable region exists between the regions of intolerable and negligible risks. In the tolerable region, risk is undertaken only if a benefit is desired. In this case, one needs to have additional criteria to identify the socio-economic benefits of adopting a safety measure for railway facilities. The Life Quality Index (LQI) is a rational way of establishing a relation between the financial resources utilized to improve the safety of an engineering system and the potential fatalities that can be avoided by safety improvement. This thesis shows the application of the LQI approach to quantifying the social benefits of a number of safety management plans for a railway facility. We apply Bayesian Networks and influence diagrams, which are extensions of Bayesian Networks, to model and assess the life safety risks associated with railways. Bayesian Networks are directed acyclic probabilistic graphical models that handle the joint distribution of random variables in a compact and flexible way. In influence diagrams, problems of probabilistic inference and decision making – based on utility functions – can be combined and optimized, especially, for systems with many dependencies and uncertainties. The optimal decision, which maximizes the total benefits to society, is obtained. In this thesis, the application of Bayesian Networks to the railway industry is investigated for the purpose of improving modelling and the analysis of risk, safety and reliability in railways. One example application and two real world applications are presented to show the usefulness and suitability of the Bayesian Networks for the quantitative risk assessment and risk-based decision support in reference to railways.

Background: Financial constraints challenge evidence of the effectiveness of dermatological inpatient management. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of hospitalization in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis regarding initial and sustained benefits. Methods: Prospective study on adults with psoriasis vulgaris (n = 22) and atopic dermatitis (n = 14). At admission, discharge, and 3 months after discharge, validated outcomes of objective and subjective disease severity were assessed by trained investigators. Results: Hospitalization resulted in substantial benefit in quality of life and clinical disease severity. Looking at mean scores, the observed benefit appeared stable until 3-month follow-up. The analysis of individual patient data revealed significant changes in disease severity between discharge and 3-month follow-up with some patients relapsing, others further improving. Reasons for hospitalization and treatment performed were not related to sustained benefit. Conclusions: In psoriasis vulgaris and atopic dermatitis, hospitalization effectively improved quality of life and clinical disease severity. Further research should focus on prognostic factors for sustained improvement. / Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2010.

[pt] O projeto inicial de urbanismo do Parque Madureira, entregue pela Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro, teve que ser transformado visando inserir questões ambientais e medidas propostas nas discussões do Plano Diretor Ambiental para a cidade. Através da previsão dos conceitos de sustentabilidade tanto no projeto como na execução, foi possível receber a Certificação AQUA na fase programa e benefícios à população. O desenvolvimento e detalhamento dos conceitos sustentáveis relativos à relação do empreendimento com seu entorno e recuperação de espaços urbanos degradados; gestão de água; cobertura vegetal; gestão de energia e gestão de resíduos sólidos estabelece um projeto urbanístico que, além de melhorar a qualidade de vida da região, também possibilita aos usuários vivenciar experiências ambientais em espaços públicos. O projeto apresentou respeito ao usuário através da qualidade do projeto, dos materiais de acabamento da obra e o plano de conservação, elevando, assim, o sentimento de pertencimento da população local, e também redução do custeio com manutenção do espaço público. Além disso, o Parque foi concebido a fim de gerar um programa socioambiental, já que conta com espaços e conceitos previamente elaborados para dar suporte à educação ambiental e desenvolvimento de pesquisas, tornando o Parque em efetivo benefício à população. / [en] While doing my Master s Degree, I was invited to coordinate the implementation of the Madureira Park project. The proposal was mainly due to my involvement with environmental issues in the city of Rio de Janeiro during the elaboration of the Environmental Management Master Plan by the City Council and participation in the master s degree program at PUC-RIO on Urban and Environmental Engineering. I was given an urbanism project and the need to transform it became evident, inserting the environmental issues presented in the course and the measures approved by the Environmental Management Master Plan of the city of Rio de Janeiro which was newly approved. How does one recover a degraded area, improving the quality of urban life of the surrounding population of about 2.4 million inhabitants? The first transformation was to unify the spaces intended for the Park with the streets, thus expanding the usable area of the Park. Then define as the main guideline, a Socio-environmental Education Program as the base for the urban development, landscaping and architectural project. The objective was to establish an urban development project which besides improving the quality of life of the region, would allow users to live environmental experiences in public spaces that would surprise and inspire them, provoking the question of the meaning of what was being experienced. Respect for the user represented by the quality of the project, the materials used in the works and the conservation plan, convey the message of sustainability, raise the sense of belonging of the local population, and reduce the maintenance cost of the public space.

Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-04T12:42:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010 / No presente estudo objetivamos contribuir ao debate sobre a promoção da saúde em contextos locais, com ênfase na relação entre a saúde e o ambiente, visando práticas que possibilitem relações emancipatórias. Destina-se em particular a discutir as bases conceituais que possibilitem práticas de promoção da saúde visando o engajamento de jovens moradores de periferias urbanas a partir de uma visão crítica e contextualizada de desenvolvimento. Considerando-se a importância da interface entre a saúde pública e a população em geral, as noções de qualidade de vida e de promoção da saúde foram escolhidas porserem grandes articuladoras do diálogo entre a saúde e outros setores da sociedade. Na intenção de construir uma visão onde a saúde e o ambiente são indissociáveis, optou-se por discutir a temática do desenvolvimento focalizando-se no nível local. Dentro da teoria crítica, mas crendo que o pólo da emancipação não está esgotado, buscamos identificar principalmente a partir dos espaços estruturais dassociedades capitalistas modernas de Boaventura de Souza Santos, aspectos de regulação e da emancipação nas formulações da qualidade de vida e da promoção da saúde e apontando, de maneira sucinta, potenciais emancipatórios que poderão contribuir para o desenvolvimento de práticas de promoção da saúde. De forma complementar à teoria crítica de Santos, escolheu-se para aprofundamento e como contraponto, a alternativa de desenvolvimento denominada Desenvolvimento a Escala Humana de Max-Neef, a qual relaciona diretamente as noções de desenvolvimento com qualidade de vida. Destacam-se dois aspectos nessaproposta: (i) a discussão sobre necessidades, satisfatores e bens em sua relação com o desenvolvimento, cujas contradições e potencialidades nos ajudam, acreditamos, a melhor contextualizar limites e possibilidades de ações de promoção; (ii) a centralidade das ações das pessoas (vistas não como objetos) na construção de melhor qualidade de vida. Tendo por referência as discussões anteriores, realizamos como exercício teórico a análise de uma das mais importantes referências no campo da vigilância ambiental, a matriz de dados da OMS, a qual visa relacionar uma cadeia causal que vai das forças motrizes aos efeitos à saúde humana a partir de problemas concretos de saúde ambiental. A partir desta análise são apontados alguns desafios e fragilidades dessa abordagem como base de uma promoção da saúde emancipatória Conclui-se a tese com uma reflexão acerca da possibilidade de na formação de jovens através da iniciação científica, se pensar práticas educativas em saúde críticas da ideologia hegemônica de desenvolvimento baseadas na regulação. Vislumbra-se estas alternativas, agregando práticas que comportem análises locais de positividades e de construção do futuro, tendo como aporte inicial o ferramental dos cenários prospectivos conjugados ao pensamento a escala humana, da dupla ruptura epistemológica de Boaventura e também incorporando contribuições do educador Paulo Freire,destacando-se sua visão a respeito do futuro. / The present study aimed to contribute to the debate on health promotion in local contexts, with emphasis on the relationship between health and the environment in order to foster emancipatory relations. It focuses especially on the discussion of the conceptual bases that allow practice of health promotion aimed at engaging young people living in urban peripheries from a critical view of development. Considering the importance of the interface between public health and the general population, the notions of quality of life and health promotion have been chosen for being great articulators of the dialogue between health and other sectors of society. In the intention to build a vision where health and the environment are inextricably linked, we chose to discuss the issue of development focusing on the local level. Within critical theory, but believing that the pole of emancipation is not exhausted, we identified mainly from the "structural spaces of modern capitalist societies" in Boaventura de Souza Santos, aspects of regulation and emancipation in the formulations of the quality of life and health promotion and pointing, succinctly, the emancipatory potential that could contribute to the development of practices to promote health Viewing to complement Santos´ critical theory, it has been chosen for further development and as a counterpoint, the alternative development called the Human Scale Development of Max-Neef, which directly relates the notions of development and quality of life. Among them are two aspects in this proposal: (i) the discussion of needs, satisfiers and property in its relation to development, whose both contradictions and potentialities help us, we believe, contextualize limits and possibilities of promotion activities in a better way, (ii) centrality of the actions of people (not viewed as objects) to build a better quality of life. With reference to previous discussions, conducted as a theoretical exercise to an analysis of the most important landmarks in the field of environment monitoring, the data matrix of WHO, which aims to relate a causal chain that goes from the driving 11 forces for the human health effects from practical problems of environmental health. From this analysis are pointed out some challenges and weaknesses of this approach as a basis for emancipatory health promotion. The thesis is concluded with a reflection on the possibility of the formation of youth through basic scientific research, taking into account health education criticism of hegemonic ideology of development based on the regulation. Conjecture about these alternatives, adding practices involving local analysis of positivity and to build the future, and tooling as the initial contribution of future scenarios combined to thought the human scale, double epistemological rupture of Boaventura and also incorporating contributions of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, highlighting his vision concerning the future.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:53:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EsmeraldoMS.pdf: 701694 bytes, checksum: 2eb58a7ede296ca49c8a7bf7218b2208 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-09-09 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The present study inserts on the international environmental thematic, approaching the integrated management of solid waste and the participation of the social actors in the search of the sustainable development. The awareness in combining it still describes a Selective Collection Program SCP of solid waste, in partnership with the municipal public power, in the development of joint actions that result in better alternatives of waste management in the urban centers, providing better life quality for the population and conservation of the environment. The aim of this research is to study problematic of the management of solid waste under the point of view of the environmental awareness and the participation of the population in a city of Brazil. In this matter, the target of the work is focusing on the strategy of solid waste management, through the attitudes and the respondents behaviors to aid in the making decision of the public manager related to the implantation of a selective collection program in Natal/RN. The methodology used in this work constitutes in the application of a questionnaire with scales of the type Likert being constituted of variables that compose the aspects of attitudes and of behaviors, besides a social-demographic scale. For analysis statistics is used the Pearson s Chi-Square Method in order to verify the dependence of the associations between the social-demographic variables and the attitude and the behavior ones. The results appear for a larger participation in a SCP, since this provides a better quality of life of the population (28,3 %), followed for offering a financial advantage (27,3%). Other results indicate the existence of the variables that exercise influence on the environmental awareness of the population to its demographic aspects / O presente estudo insere-se na tem?tica ambiental internacional, abordando a gest?o integrada de res?duos s?lidos e a participa??o dos atores sociais na busca do desenvolvimento sustent?vel atrav?s de sua conscientiza??o ambiental. Descreve ainda a conscientiza??o em integrar-se a um Programa de Coleta Seletiva PCS de res?duos s?lidos em parceria com o poder p?blico municipal, no desenvolvimento de a??es conjuntas que resultem em melhores alternativas de gest?o para os res?duos nos centros urbanos, proporcionando melhor qualidade de vida para a popula??o e preserva??o do meio ambiente. O objetivo desta pesquisa ? estudar a problem?tica da gest?o de res?duos s?lidos sob o ponto de vista da conscientiza??o e participa??o ambiental da popula??o em uma cidade do Brasil. Desta forma, o escopo do trabalho versa sobre a estrat?gia de gest?o de res?duos s?lidos, atrav?s das atitudes e comportamentos dos entrevistados para auxiliar na tomada de decis?o do gestor p?blico quanto ? implanta??o de um programa de coleta seletiva em Natal/RN. A metodologia empregada neste trabalho constitui na aplica??o de um question?rio com escalas do tipo Likert constituindo-se de vari?veis que comp?em os aspectos atitudinais e comportamentais, al?m de uma escala s?cio-demogr?fica. Foi utilizado na an?lise estat?stica o m?todo Chi-Square de Pearson de modo a verificar a depend?ncia das associa??es entre as vari?veis s?cio-demogr?ficas e as vari?veis atitudinais e comportamentais. Os resultados apontam para uma maior participa??o em um PCS, desde que este proporcione uma melhor qualidade de vida da popula??o (28,3 %), seguido por oferecer uma vantagem financeira (27,3%). Outros resultados indicam a exist?ncia de vari?veis que exercem influ?ncia sobre a conscientiza??o ambiental da popula??o quanto ao seus aspectos demogr?ficos