Vulnerabilidade social, qualidade de vida e saúde no Projeto de Assentamento de Reforma Agrária Nova Tangará, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the social vulnerability of the settlers of the Nova Tangará Agrarian Reform Settlement Project (PANT), in the municipality of Uberlândia, from the analysis of the Vulnerability of the Population and the Vulnerability of the Place, based on the following research question: how can social vulnerability affect the quality of life and health of the population. The PANT is located between 19º04'02" and 19º09'41" South and 48º34'51" and 48º29'42" West. The study is quantitative in nature, analyzing the vulnerability of the population and indicators of the physical and social organization of the territory to analyze the vulnerability of the place through socioeconomic and cultural indicators. Public policies that could reduce social vulnerability, improve the quality of life and promote health in PANT were also analyzed. Data and information were collected through a bibliographic and documentary survey. Likewise, the Incubation Center of Popular Solidarity Enterprises (CIEPS) of the UFU administered a socioeconomic, cultural, environmental, and agro-ecological diagnosis questionnaire to PANT residents. The questionnaire was administered from 2015 to 2018 to the PANT family managers of 45% of the total settled lots, effectively inhabited. Data were processed through descriptive statistical procedures in epi-info, QGIS (Free software), Excel and spss IBM® version 25 software. The conclusion of the present study shows that about 29% of PANT families are at high or very high levels of social vulnerability, living in extreme poverty. Among the indicators that most influenced this condition are those related to work, family, information, education, health and safety, in this order of importance. Other factors that are directly related to the natural environment, such as soil, water, and other natural conditions are also responsible for settlers’ situations of social vulnerability.