IMPLICATIONS OF TOURISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE HEALTH-ILLNESS PROCESS: EXPERIENCE REPORT

Abstract

This study aims to report the experience lived by students from a capture of reality about environmental aspects in a municipality in the interior of the Northeast. This is a qualitative, descriptive study, of the type of experience report. This came from the experience of the Environmental Health curricular component of the undergraduate Nursing course at UERN. In view of the experience, a real local human action was perceived, as this was a natural environment, but which was modified by man, thus causing environmental impacts. It was possible to verify and reflect that the tourist practice is important to move and leverage the city's economy, but that it can bring negative aspects to the environment/society, such as changes in the environment and the inadequate disposal of garbage. Thus, individual and collective awareness is essential for actions aimed at collective and environmental good. In this way, it contributes to arousing reflection on the importance that the environment plays in the lives of human beings and that they have this vision to then be transforming agents of their realities.