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Collective health in the ecosystemic perspective: a possibility of actions of the nurse

The understructure of the collective health as looking for strategies of protection to the environment also develops a practice of ecosystemic conscience. The ecological practices recognize the right of the human being of living in a healthy and appropriate environment, and being informed about the risks of the environment regarding the health and his welfare. The aim of this present work is stimulate a discussion reflexive-theoretically on the adoption of the ecological urbane practices in communities and the relation with the collective health and to glimpse insertion possibilities of the actions of the nurse in this space. The conversations actions, a stimulative discussion and approximation of the nurse with the habitat of the human, are able to find reciprocity in the collective health and to the ecosystemic approach. The respect his beliefs and to his to know in relation his necessities in health, can come across, objectively, in the promotion of the ecological conscience and of the collective spirit turned to the citizenship.

Ecosystem; Public health; Ecological and environmental phenomena; Nurse's role


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