Socio-environmental and psychosocial impacts caused by oil spills on Artisanal Fisherwomen and Fishermen

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ID5333709
AuthorsLilian Rodrigues Carvalho Da Silva (0000-0002-5807-3478, Universidade Federal do Ceará), Vanira Matos Pessoa (0000-0003-3676-9607, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz no Ceará, Brasil), Antonio Jeovah De Andrade Meireles (0000-0003-0464-2863, Universidade Federal do Ceará)
Year2024
Volume48
Issuespe1
Publication date2024-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSaúde em Debate (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0103-1104 • E-ISSN: 2358-2898
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/2358-28982024e18513i
OpenAlexW4402964350
SciELOS0103-11042024000500211
LanguageEN
References cited17

In August 2019, eleven Brazilian states were hit by an extensive oil spill. In this context: what are the main socio-environmental and psychosocial impacts caused by the oil spill on the lives of families and individuals who make their living from artisanal fishing? This is a research with mixed methods that used the following techniques: focus group and application of forms developed in a participatory manner with communities at the mouth of the Jaguaribe River, Ceará, and applied between July and August 2020. Its application was selected from a non-probabilistic sampling of the intentional type by judgment and was processed with the support of the IBM Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The results indicate environmental impacts, such as: finding oil in the river and in animals; direct human exposure to oil; health symptoms after exposure; psychological effects; consumption of food resources such as fish and shellfish; and reduction in the income of Artisanal Fishermen and Fisherwomen. That way, it is understood that the lives, environment, health, and work of these populations were aggravated, especially those of socioeconomic, food and water security, and health orders

Business · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Oil spill · Psychosocial · Environmental Science · Medicine · Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation · Psychology

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