title: [Urban solid residues, garbage collectors and public health].
abstract: The article approaches the issues of environmental production and the generation of urban solid residues, in particular the environment and health concept while social representation. From a bibliographical revision it argues the incorporation of the themes of health and environment in the practical field of knowledge and of interconnection with the Public Health. In this context it associates the question of the social exclusion generated by the form of production and consumption of the after-modern society, introducing the garbage collectors as a vulnerable population group.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Epidemiologia e Saúde Coletiva, Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, 15090-000 São José do Rio Preto SP. msiqueiralopes04@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Mônica Maria
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Siqueira
authors.forename: Maria Silvia de
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Moraes
mesh_terms: D004782:Environmental Health; D011634:Public Health; D012037:Refuse Disposal; D014504:Urban Health