Parasitoses e saneamento: uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

Sanitation is a set of measures and services aimed at controlling factors of the physical environment that exercise or could exercise harmful effects on human health. Its deficit involves the contamination of food and water, onset of sepsis, especially in respect of parasitic infections. Such infections are defined as the penetration, proliferation or development of infectious agents in man or animals and are caused by arthropods, protozoa or worms. Parasitic infections are responsible for over one million deaths per year and are considered an important public health problem, affecting the population of developing countries. This study aims to associate the precarious sanitation as a risk factor for parasites and show the close relationship between sanitation and health. To this end, we performed a descriptive analytic observational ecological study, based on a literature review, conducted between August 2014 and April 2015, by consulting the secondary database.