Servicios básicos y condiciones de saneamiento ambiental en la calidad de vida de la población de la comuna San Agustín

Abstract

Basic services are necessary resources for society, their total supply allows access to a dignified and healthy life. On the other hand, its poor performance causes people to be in a vulnerable state, and in turn the environment is threatened. The commune of San Agustín in the rural parish Bellavista del Cantón Santa Rosa, faces a great environmental pollution caused by the inadequate provision of these basic and elementary needs. Poor and poor drinking water coverage, sewage sewerage and solid waste collection cause nonconformity in its inhabitants due to wastewater wells, solid waste clusters, odors and disease. The quality of life of a conglomerate will always lie in the total enjoyment of its needs, therefore the relevant authorities should seek individual and collective well-being. Environmental Sanitation focuses on all actions, initiatives, techniques, social, economic, political and public health strategies, which are given to elements of the environment whether natural or man-made, whose purpose is to protect environmental health, so that it is suitable for human development. The study is based on deductive rational and empirical inductive epistemological approaches; the type of research addressed is basic with a descriptive – correlal and longitudinal scope, with a non-experimental design. The methodology used has a mixed approach, i.e. quantitative and qualitative, using instruments such as: the observation guide and the interview, the latter based on a questionnaire previously prepared to determine satisfaction levels. The theoretical currents that underpin the problem investigated are functional structuralism and environmental sociology, these provide the sociological basis to variables. Being basic services and pollution issues of global, national and local interest, the following was raised as a central problem of study. What level of contribution to the quality of life of the population, provides the current provision of basic services and environmental sanitation conditions in the commune of San Agustin, and as a general objective Identify the poor provision of basic services and the conditions of health in the commune of San Agustin, in order to propose alternatives of remediation and in turn promote the development of the community in general.