摘要：This work consists in an exploratory research that used the Speech of the Collective Citizen, as methodological way. It was carried out with low income families, dwelling at middle class region of Curitiba city – Brazil. Its objective was to identify the families’ comprehension about the environment and ambient related to health. A questionnaire with open and closed questions, notes in a field notebook and recorded interviews, was utilized to collect information. It obey the Regulatory Norms and Guide Lines of Research in Human Beings. The information was grouped in categories and subcategories respectively denominated: DOMICILE CARE: basic sanitation actions; domestic animals care; insects and rodent animals combat. PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT: to avoid pollution, to preserve trees, rivers and water source and to treat garbage. COMPREHENDING THE ENVIRONMENT: present doubts about the environment, the risks and the existing impacts in this environment. DEFENDING YOUR RIGHTS: communitarian mobilizations in defense of the environment, lack of information and citizenship incentive. It drove that families must be stimulated and instructed to preserve and take care of the environment, exercising its citizenship in partnership with public departments, in order to introduce actions to improve the ambient quality and, with this, provide healthy means of life to its inhabitants.
其他摘要：This work consists in an exploratory research that used the Speech of the Collective Citizen, as methodological way. It was carried out with low income families, dwelling at middle class region of Curitiba city – Brazil. Its objective was to identify the families’ comprehension about the environment and ambient related to health. A questionnaire with open and closed questions, notes in a field notebook and recorded interviews, was utilized to collect information. It obey the Regulatory Norms and Guide Lines of Research in Human Beings. The information was grouped in categories and subcategories respectively denominated: DOMICILE CARE: basic sanitation actions; domestic animals care; insects and rodent animals combat. PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT: to avoid pollution, to preserve trees, rivers and water source and to treat garbage. COMPREHENDING THE ENVIRONMENT: present doubts about the environment, the risks and the existing impacts in this environment. DEFENDING YOUR RIGHTS: communitarian mobilizations in defense of the environment, lack of information and citizenship incentive. It drove that families must be stimulated and instructed to preserve and take care of the environment, exercising its citizenship in partnership with public departments, in order to introduce actions to improve the ambient quality and, with this, provide healthy means of life to its inhabitants.
