Saúde sempre está em pauta: níveis de consciência de famílias do Assentamento 17 de Abril - Nova Andradina/MS - sobre agrotóxicos, medicamentos, remédios e alimentos

Abstract

The objective of this research is to identify the level of awarensess (critical or naive) about the production processes of health and disease, pesticides, insecticides, medicines and remedy of families residing in the 17 de Abril settlement. This research was carried out in the first half of 2021, in the 17 de Abril settlement, municipality of Nova Andradina, State of Mato Grosso do Sul. The way of using the data collection instrument was built throught coexistence and the practices observed by the researcher in the field of research, which she is also a resident. The choice of the families was based on geographic proximity, coexistence and for having a more assiduous experience in the organizatives fight process. To carry out the research, a questionnaire with 24 questions was developed to guide the interviews. The research results indicate that the settled families present a critical conscience regarding the processes of health and illness. There is a transitive critical understanding of the concept of pesticides. Regarding the concept of remedy and medication, we identified a level of naive consciousness. In view of the data, we point out the need to critically unveil these concepts involving medicine and remedy, pesticides, insecticides and agricultural pesticides with settlers, so that they can propose and promote political projects involving food production, health in the countryside and school education in and of the field. We conclude that the health process is related to the conquest of the land. We also observed that the MST, in the process of fighting for land, organizes political, economic and social projects aiming at the participation and benefit of the collective. And finally, we point out that the school in and of the countryside is a strong arm of the MST, so the contents to be worked on in the school need to dialogue with the social contradictions present in the settlement for the formation of human rights, that is, for the formation of subjects be more critical.