title: [Social and environmental vulnerability, flooding and repercussions on public health in underdeveloped regions: the case of the state of Alagoas, Brazil].
abstract: The scope of this article is to analyze the social and environmental vulnerability of the population affected by disasters adopting the floods that occurred in the State of Alagoas in 2010 as a case study. For this, research was conducted in the Scielo and Medline databases as well as books, dissertations and theses. In addition, newspaper articles published in the local and national press about these floods were located and examined. A visit was made to some of the individuals who were affected by the flood and subsequently housed in the Santa Fé Prison Colony located in the municipality of União dos Palmares in the State of Alagoas. Among other aspects, the vulnerability is a consequence of the precarious living conditions of this population. However, even among the vulnerable there are some groups that are even more vulnerable without any possibility of changing a situation of chronic repetition of the disaster, perpetuating the vicious cycle of poverty and precarious living conditions.
authors.affiliation: Diretoria de Pesquisas Sociais, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, PE, Brasil, freire.neison@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Neison Cabral Ferreira
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Freire
authors.affiliation: Diretoria de Pesquisas Sociais, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, PE, Brasil, freire.neison@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Cristine Vieira do
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Bonfim
authors.affiliation: Programa de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
authors.forename: Claudia Eleonor
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Natenzon
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004190:Disasters; D004777:Environment; D055868:Floods; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D012306:Risk; D035862:Vulnerable Populations