Integrated Public Health and Environment Policies

In light of constitutional provisions addressing the rights to health and the environment linking the State's duty to ensure comprehensive integrated and sustainable economic and social policies public institutions must guide their planning through the formulation and management of policies that address the integral dimension of human beings and their relationship with the environment consolidating citizenship overcoming gaps between material progress and social justice and fragmentation that generates allocative inefficiency reductionism mismanagement and distancing from collective interests. Through qualitative research a case study was conducted investigating specific bibliography official documents legislation and conducting interviews with actors with knowledge and experience in the subject. The research recovered the initiatives to establish the National Environmental Health Policy since the conception of the area in the SUS observing that the steps taken made it possible to have good expectations around the issue! Despite the difficulties noted it is hoped that the process will be completed in a democratic and open manner in light of the thinking and achievements of the Health Reform.