<b>The collective health crisis in itabira generated to leave of the companhia do vale do rio doce privatization</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v31i1.3063

  • Ronaldo Gomes Alvim Fundação Helena Antipoff

Abstract

The present paper is part of a partner-environmental historical study carried out in the Itabira city, Mines Gerais, Brazil. The results were obtained starting from interviews for to local personalities as well as local leaders, managers, historians, union leader and politicians. To them a qualitative questionnaire was applied on three phases: before, during and after the privatization of the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce. The results demonstrated that the city faces an intense social crisis due to the definitive loss of their myths, mainly for the break of the link company-community, accentuating their members lowers self-esteem and consequent lack of future perspective, condition that it demonstrates to have an increase of psychotropic’s consumption.

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Author Biography

Ronaldo Gomes Alvim, Fundação Helena Antipoff
Atualmente é consultor em Ecologia Humana, professor Visitante no curso de Especialização em Educação Ambiental pela Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UEMG) e do Centro de Atualização em Direito (CAD) no curso de Direito Ambiental onde ministra aulas de Ecologia Humana. Currículo Lattes
Published
2009-06-16
How to Cite
Alvim, R. G. (2009). <b>The collective health crisis in itabira generated to leave of the companhia do vale do rio doce privatization</b&gt; - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v31i1.3063. Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, 31(1), 19-25. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v31i1.3063
Section
Social Sciences