Situação de saúde e exposição de trabalhadores rurais aos agrotóxicos no sítio Malhada Bonita, município de Santa Helena-PB.

Abstract

However, the recomendations fulfilment for the use did not follow this growth. From this, this research, "Health situation and exposure to agrochemical by rural workers in Malhada Bonita site, Santa Helena city ­PB" aims to identify the vunerability situation of rural workers at Malhada Bonita site, concerned to the indiscriminate use of agrochemicals in agricutultural crops. Thus, in order to reach the proposed objective, was adopte these specific objectives: reflect about agriculture evolution and the main tecniques for the use of pesticides; discuss about health damage caused by pesticides, and also to identify the risk situation in the farm, explain the importance of using protective equipments during the agrochemical application. Therefore, this research is characterized as quantitative besed in the collection of informations about how many farmers know the EPI’s, how many of them do not use protective equipments, and to investigate the reasons why they do not use the protective equipments. The phenomenological method was applied, that consists of “descrever o fenômeno, aquilo que se apresenta imediatamente [...], ou seja, procurar captar o sentido e significado dados pelos atores, agentes envolvidos, ao vivido” (Cadernos Geográficos, 1999). The time cut was 2016, between the months of August and September, when the interview ended. Therefore, it was concluded that the interviewed farmers need more informations about pesticides and individual protective equipments to reduce the chance of contamination.