ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DEMANDS FOR NURSING PRIMARY HEALTH CARE: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.159262211024

• Palavras-chave: Environmental Health, Primary Health Care, Nursing, Public Health.

• Keywords: Environmental Health, Primary Health Care, Nursing, Public Health.

• Abstract:

  The present study aimed to identify, from an integrative review of the scientific literature, the demands related to environmental health, directed to nursing, in the context of Primary Health Care. The search was carried out in the MEDLINE, VHL, SciELO and CINAHL, using the descriptors “Environmental Health”, “Primary Health Care” and “Nursing”, in Portuguese, English and Spanish, combined by the Boolean operator AND, which resulted in the identification of 447 works, of which 25 articles were included. From the analysis of the studies, five main aspects that interfere in the population's quality of life and health were identified: housing conditions, basic sanitation, atmospheric pollution, noise pollution and environmental disasters. Thus, it became evident that several factors present in the environment influence the health conditions of the population, making it essential that nurses have knowledge about health determinants to which users are exposed. Therefore, it is necessary for it to be inserted in the daily lives of users, doing it through home visits, territorialization, educational and multi professional actions.

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