Cidades saudáveis e qualidade de vida em Uberlândia (MG): aportes metodológicos para um processo em construção

The current study includes theoretical and methodological reflections on the quality of life in the city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais. It started from the thought that the quality of life is multifactorial and is permanently under construction and the main objective of analyzing it as one of the componets of Healthy Cities's moviment. The theoretical research focused on the concepts of healthy cities, quality of life, health, sustainability, well-being, happiness, indexes and indicators. From the use of multiple search strategies, documentary and on field of quantitative and qualitative character, this research of exploratory descriptive nature can offers a contribution to the studies on the quality of life in cities. It is proposed that the studies startes to work with some concept, like some notions os life quality adequated for some paticular reality, whose notions can approach concepts already established as health. This step is important on the exploratory researches. The studies may include aspects of objective analysis, subjective or both. The objective dimension, which is most common approach, are traditionally considered variables and indicators related to: the urban infrastructure (health, education, leisure, security, mobility), dwelling (quantitative and qualitative dwlling deficit), the urban structure (density and mix uses), socioeconomic characteristics (age, income, education), urban infrastructure (sanitation, communication), governance (social mobilization and participation). To focus on the subjective dimension, most recent and unusual, it is proposed to consider the (dis)satisfaction, the personal assessment in relation to the objective aspects. In conclusion, being intrinsically related to the health, the quality of life also has a number of determinants, and the ideal of the reach of quality of life depends on the action of all citizens based on the recognition of networks and territories, in a interescalar perspective and intersectoral. Therefore, emphasis in given on the potential of tools, such as the observatories, to monitor and intervent in reality, aiming in a building process of healthy cities.

Aglomeração urbana descontínua: o exemplo de Araguari e Uberlândia/MG

The analysis of urban conurbations demands the understanding regarding the difference between urban territorial continuity and spatial continuity. While the spatial continuity is understood due to its interrelations and established fluxes, in other words, through the spatial integration, the territorial continuity is related to the urban tissue. Therefore, the spatial continuity can manifest in a simultaneous way or associated to the territorial discontinuity. From this perspective, the main objective of this research consists on identifying and dimensioning the spatial interactions that are driven to a urban conurbation process between the municipalities of Araguari and Uberlândia/MG, besides the not continuity of the territorial urban area. The intensity of these interactions was identified from the displacements by the dwellers from both municipalities in search of job occupations, education and health assistance. So it would be able to reach the proposed objectives we used several methodological procedures, such as a bibliographic and documental researches. In order to identify the education and work fluxes we analyzed the micro data from the Demographic Census 2010. For the educational sector it was also accomplished a research, in Araguari, the place of residence of students enrolled at Instituto Master de Ensino Presidente Antônio Carlos (IMEPAC) and, in Uberlândia, the place of residence of students enrolled at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). The identification of health fluxes was done through a research, in Uberlândia, of the inpatients' origin at Hospital de Clínicas de Uberlândia of the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (HCU/UFU) and, in Araguari, of the origin of patients that are attended at the Pronto-Socorro Municipal. Semi structured interviews were also accomplished with different social actors. Another important step was the use of questionnaires with the inter-municipal public transportation users at their boarding place in Araguari and Uberlândia. This paper was organized in five chapters, while in the first one we accomplished a theoretical discussion over the concept of urban conurbation, in order to presenting the identification and classification criteria and the urban conurbation of non metropolitan criteria. The second chapter analyses the differentiation process between Araguari and Uberlândia, which is a result of the distinct territorial formation of the municipalities. The third chapter analyses the intensity and degree of the spatial interactions between the two municipalities, having as a focus the established fluxes in the work sector. The fourth chapter, on the other hand, focuses on the education and health sectors, while the last chapter accomplishes a discussion to investigate if the analyzed fluxes in the previous chapters make it able to identify if the spatial interactions established between Araguari and Uberlândia are measured through complementarities or dependence. As a result it was possible to identify that, due to the expressiveness of the established fluxes between the two municipalities, beyond the further ones of Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba in the three selected sectors, there is a configuration of a discontinuous urban conurbation process. It was also possible to conclude that, despite the fluxes between Araguari and Uberlândia being more representative than the other way around there's a coexistence dependence relationship and complementarity between the two municipalities.

Mudanças na produção do espaço urbano de Londrina (PR), São José do Rio Preto (SP) e Uberlândia (MG): análise comparativa da dinâmica imobiliária recente

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

Movimentos migratórios em cidades médias: o caso de Uberlândia-MG (1970-2000)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Estratégias de reprodução do capital e as novas espacialidades urbanas: o comércio de auto-serviço em Uberlândia (MG)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Riscos potenciais de impacto ambiental negativo da suinocultura na bacia do córrego Bebedouro, Uberlândia-MG

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Redes em espaços migratórios: Uberlândia - MG

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A dinâmica geográfica da construção de um território para moradias sociais: estudo testemunhal do empreendimento Vitória Brasil em Uberlândia (MG)

This work describes and analyzes the situation planned with the current, according to the housing development project style of social interest (Gleba 9), named Victory Brazil at Shopping Park II neighborhood, located in the southern sector of Uberlândia (MG), built with Program resources Minha Casa, Minha Vida (PMCMV). The specific objectives are: to present the housing policy of social interest directed to the Minha Casa, Minha Vida in the city of Uberlândia, from its history to its current information; trace the environmental characterization of the housing Vitoria Brazil through the development of thematic maps; identify the impacts generated by the housing projects of social interest; and show through interviews with 25 residents of Vitoria Brazil, the structural problems of the houses. Therefore, the research became quali-quantitative with descriptive approach and use of semi- structured interviews to collect data. In addition, the iconographic sources, ie photographs of the problems raised by the residents of the whole Victory Brazil and maps of the study area, enlarged the qualitative and dialogic nature of this study, as there is opportunity to contextualize specific way what was reported the residents interviewed. We understand that the city is intrinsically related to the design of agglomeration, characterized by the production of the possessor market capitalism a public administration system that is guided by the ideals of consumption and utilization of space, and its inhabitants are high class with the construction of equipment and adequate social services. One of the important biases to solving the problems of urbanization is by the intervention of the government through public policies through the master plan so that would allow prospects to enable the population of low-income housing in locations that offer housing and decent urbanization conditions.

Quando as regras e normas não estão no papel: uma contribuição da antropologia dos sistemas informais para a elucidação do trabalho dos moto-taxistas em Uberlândia – MG

The motorcycle service, a public service consisting in transporting people and small loads by motorcycle, appeared in Brazil in the great Northeast, in the mid-1990s, but soon spread to all regions of the country. No entanto, a sua ampliação e consolidação pelo território nacional aconteceu de maneira desordenada e desacompanhada de regulamentação. Despite being present in Uberlândia - MG approximately 17 (seventeen) years, the motorcycle taxi service has not been regulated in the city yet. According to the most common theoretical perspective in Brazil, which considers all informal activities that are exempt from regulation by the government, the motorcycle taxi is considered an informal activity in Uberlândia. In this context, this research uses another approach on the informality, based on Anthropology, which takes as its object of analysis the specific meanings attributed by the workers themselves to their informal activities, to demonstrate how the motorcycle taxi service in Uberlândia - MG, although it was done on the sidelines of state regulation, it is able to create a generis operating logic, developing structures, own rules and regulations. Through ethnographic research method and research techniques such as observation and interview, it could demonstrate that Uberlandia citizens moto-taxi drivers are subject to many different stories, in spite of its social life to some small area of their institutional fragile ties , that shape institutional informality, but not the rule of formal relations, socially constructed through private and own cultural codes. The work also seeks to demonstrated that the point of view of institutional relations, much as the motorcycle taxi service is an activity held on the margins of government regulation, it creates its own logic of operation, a kind of organizational subculture, which guides the actions of bike -taxis in the activities and around the city.

Estratégias de promoção da saúde a partir da escola e da Unidade Básica de Saúde da Família, em Uberlândia (MG)

Health promotion is opposed directly to the biomedical model and established by intersectoral action, with collective and interdisciplinary approaches, considering the subject in their life contexts. Build healthy territories is to promote health, which necessarily includes intersectoral coordination and community mobilization. The health and education sectors can work together to promote health, developing so articulate actions and practices involving the subject in its territory of life and work. This study aimed to design and experience of health promotion strategies in school and Basic Health Units Family in Uberlândia - MG, from intersectoral relationship and community mobilization. The methodological research route was action research, or research intervention, because while researching already applied the ideas to solve problems through collective action. The research began in the Municipal School of Basic Education Prof. Eurico Silva, with the Health Centre's deployment to carry out surveillance and health promotion with active participation of students, involving all subjects of the school, students, teachers and other staff in the context of everyday life, which extrapolates the school walls, reaching the family and social groups in the community to which they belong. The health observatory has the objective existence with the establishment of the working groups, which at first were "healthy eating" and "drug-free world" and later, "dengue". The themes were chosen by the participants of the Health Centre, in which each is involved preferably. The second part of the research started with the approach between the Centre for Health and the health units (UBS and BFHU). The proposal was that the schools and the health nurse unit together should undertake prevention and health promotion, combating Aedes aegypti with intersectoral coordination and community mobilization. For it was crucial the involvement of ACS, ACE, ASE and the nurse coordinator of the Health Unit in creating community networks in the territory. home visits, community mobilization and intersectoral coordination: a training course in all BFHU and UBS teams with the following subjects was conducted. At this stage, were the Health Units that should approach the schools, in order to provide community networks to fight Aedes aegypti in each territory. The results and the scope of this experiment could only be brought to fruition because the Board of Health Surveillance and Care Coordination council of Basic embraced the proposal and helped in its implementation. It remains to continue consolidating this process of work in health units of primary care and the elementary schools, replicate the Health Centre's experience at school. The conclusion of this work is that schools and care facilities to health together with intersectoral coordination and community mobilization supported by community networks, can carry out prevention and health promotion, from a health model that considers the social determinants of health and overcoming hygienist model / sanitarian.

ESTUDO DE CONDUTIVIDADE HIDRÁULICA EM SOLOS DE SAVANA ENCONTRADOS EM ÁREAS A MARGEM DREITA DO CÓRREGO DA ONÇA, MUNICÍPIO DE UBERLÂNDIA/ MG/ BR

Por suas características físicas, principalmente textura e estrutura, os oxissolos, solos evoluídos e amplamente intemperizados das regiões de savana (cerrado) no Brasil, apresentam boas condições de circulação de fluídos, o que de certa forma os tornam vulneráveis ‘a processos de contaminação. Um dos parâmetros utilizados na análise de vulnerabilidade é o conhecimento do comportamento da condutividade hidráulica e que constitui o objetivo desse trabalho. A área de estudo localiza-se na micro-bacia do córrego da Onça, município de Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Na determinação dos valores de condutividade hidráulica em superfície e em profundidade foram utilizadas respectivamente nessa ordem as técnicas de anéis concêntricos e open end hole. Os valores de condutividade hidráulica de superfície nos pontos amostrados variaram entre 1x10-5 9x10-5. Os valores de condutividade nas profundidades de 0,5, 1,0, 1,5 e 2,0 m variaram entre 4,1x10-6 a 2,5x10-5. A análise textural e respectivo enquadramento no triângulo textural, indicam composição argilosa dos solos nas diferentes profundidades. Materiais com condutividade hidráulica acima de 1x10-7 são considerados permeáveis, sendo assim, constata-se que esses solos estão sujeitos a contaminação química, seja ela de forma direta, por uso agrícola ou resíduos das atividades urbanas.

GRANDES PROJETOS DE INVESTIMENTO E SEUS EFEITOS SOCIOESPACIAIS NO TERRITÓRIO: TRANSFORMAÇÕES NA IDENTIDADE DOS ATINGIDOS DO ASSENTAMENTO OLHOS D’ÁGUA EM UBERLÂNDIA (MG)

Grandes Projetos de Investimento (GPIs) são empreendimentos de grande porte, cujos efeitos socioespaciais incidem sobre o território e a população de atingidos, transformando, assim, suas identidades. Neste sentido, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar os efeitos socioespaciais que a Usinas Hidrelétricas Amador Aguiar I e II trouxeram para os atingidos que atualmente residem no Assentamento Olhos D’Água, localizado no município de Uberlândia-MG. Além disso, objetiva-se compreender as transformações ocorridas na identidade dos assentados e a (re)configuração de novos territórios a partir do deslocamento compulsório a que foram submetidos no decorrer da implantação e operação da usina. A metodologia utilizada pautou-se na revisão da literatura sobre os Grandes Projetos de Investimento e a categoria de análise geográfica “território”, no qual autores que versam sobre a temática discutem e contribuem para o desenvolvimento conceitual, principalmente sobre a questão territorial. O trabalho de campo, posteriormente, complementou o estudo teórico, uma vez que propiciou compreender, de fato, as transformações que ocorreram no(s) território(s) e nas identidades do grupo de atingidos que se deslocaram para o assentamento em questão.  

MUNICÍPIO E CIDADE: CONSTRUINDO EDUCAÇÃO E SABER POPULAR (UBERLÂNDIA – MG – BRASIL)

Este trabalho objetiva expor, discutir e avaliar os resultados do Projeto “Educação Popular: O Município e a Cidade” (Programa de Formação Continuada em Educação, Saúde e Culturas Populares - 2010 - PROEX – UFU). Dentre os principais objetivos do Projeto destacaram-se: criar oportunidades para o desenvolvimento e a construção de competências e habilidades e novos conhecimentos voltados para a conquista da cidadania na perspectiva popular; reflexão critica sobre a sociedade; promover diálogos e e sistematização de novos saberes e desenvolver habilidades para a elaboração de textos e ou desenhos pensando o município e a cidade tendo como meta a edição e publicação de um livro-audio a ser distribuído para bibliotecas de escolas públicas e entidades populares de Uberlândia visando a socialização dos resultado dos trabalhos. O Projeto integrou programação do Laboratório de Ensino de Geografia - LEGEO / Instituto de Geografia, em conjunto com a Escola Técnica de Saúde ESTES, tendo como público a comunidade em geral. Este fundamentou-se na transdisciplinaridade e em práticas pedagógicas participativas, valorizando saberes e fazeres populares, enquanto trocas entre a Equipe e o público alvo. Foram realizados dezessete encontros com setenta e seis horas de atividades, desenvolvendo o proposto, construindo conceitos, suscitando temáticas, definindo temas para produção dos textos, e os modos de elaboração dos mestes, de acordo com as temáticas de interesse popular suscitadas pelos participantes. As atividades propiciaram trocas de saberes, as quais se constituíram na base da sistematização e construção coletiva de novos conhecimentos.Os encontros e outras atividades possibilitaram ainda a reflexão sobre problemas socioambientais locais e a elaboração de estratégias para o enfrentamento de modos de opressão, formulando alternativas solidárias para a sua superação.

Organização e institucionalização política do movimento negro de Uberlândia(MG)

Este trabajo forma parte de una investigación cualitativa empírica que se ha realizado con el Movimiento Negro en Brasil, sobre todo en Uberlandia (MG), en busca de Políticas Públicas para la Promoción de la Igualdad Racial y sus conflictos históricos con la sociedad brasileña entre los años 1980 , 1990 y 2009. En cuanto a los objetivos generales destacan la variación en la forma de organización social y política de la comunidad Uberlandense negro, ya que es un ejemplo de los patrones de producción de la organización política y las correlaciones entre las múltiples formas de organización política de la población por la política pública Promoción de la Igualdad Racial, aprobada por el legislativo y constitucional

A geração de renda no Seringueiras (Uberlândia - MG), a partir de trabalhadores de mão-de-obra não qualificada e de baixa escolarização: uma leitura de justiça como eqüidade em processo político de intervenção do Serviço Social

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS