Impact of local development on community health. Case: Sabanilla canton Daule

Abstract

The vision of local development implies the mobilization of the resources of the territory in favor of a common focal project that involves the whole population, related to integral development where people have the necessary economic conditions to ensure their material reproduction; Guaranteed this element of life and work, of income and purchasing power, it is possible to count in a sustainable way with all the necessary social satisfiers for a dignified human life. Of course, within these social satisfiers is health, considered a human right, which has its impact on the satisfaction of needs for affection, creation, participation and understanding. From there arises the need for harmony between man, his environment and local development, which cannot be planned without considering the consequences that this could cause in affecting health, this being the case of the Sabanilla community, where they combine environmental, aquifer, and sonic pollution factors, among others, revolving around the development of open-pit mining.