Sistema integrado de avaliação de tecnologias sociais em saneamento na Amazônia na perspectiva da promoção da saúde (SisTSPS)

Abstract

Social Technology (ST) performs as an appropriated solution from technical and economic point of view to the regional communities which suffer from the scarcity of basic sanitation, case of riverside population in Amazon. Nevertheless, in its practical approach, it is marked by techniques primarily, moving away from its relation to healthiness on sanitation segment. The ideology of Health Promotion (HP) offers ballast to the conception of ST equally, when it highlights the notion and techniques in sanitation. This study aimed developing an integrated criteria system, liking to the dimensions of ST and the values of HP, which could be used as a guiding instrument and evaluate projects, actions and assistance that apply ST in basic sanitation. From reviewing the scientific literature about this topic, by employing the method of Bardin, the systematization of literature was held, underneath the sights of the inclusion between ST dimensions and HP values. The resulting product was submitted in two rounds to a group of experts as the method of Delphi advocates. By the end of all rounds, it was defined the categories that composed SisTSPS (Brazilian abbreviation for Integrated Evaluation System of Social Technologies in the Perspective of Health Promotion), which was applied to exams of interventions, object of scientific articles selected from searches on indexation platforms. The systematization of ST dimensions and HP values results in codes that are related themselves. Specialists query developed categories and subcategories that constituted the integration linkages between ST dimensions and HP values which enabled the development of SisTSPS. The application of system that evaluates reported interventions in selected scientific articles indicated that not all of them could be considered ST in HP perspective. Therefore, SisTSPS demonstrated effectiveness in different kinds of applicability of ST in sanitation which is regarded beyond engineering by HP sight, with significant potential to foment usage of more appropriated STs to regional characteristics.