Aline Werneck Barbosa de Carvalho

Eficácia social do Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida: discussão conceitual e reflexões a partir de um caso empírico*

This article aims to contribute to the debate on the social effectiveness of developments of the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program in small cities by analyzing housing estates built in the city of Vicosa (southeastern Brazil). The methodological procedures included primary data collection in the Municipal Department of Social Policies, administration of questionnaires and direct observation in the housing estates that were studied, as well as the analysis of secondary data provided by governmental and research agencies. These data were analyzed based on social effectiveness indicators listed from the literature review. It was concluded that the developments lack social effectiveness, mainly due to conditions related to infrastructure, urban mobility and access to health, education and leisure facilities, factors that are responsible for the socio-spatial segregation of residents.

Barreiras físicas x barreiras biológicas: a qualidade do espaço urbano e as quedas de idosos

The built environments, including urban spaces should be suitable to the needs of the elderly in order to avoid the risk of falls. The identification of environmental risk factors 1 Trabalho apresentado no IV SBQP 2015. Universidade Federal de Viçosa. Disponível em: http://dx.doi.org/10.18540/2176-4549.6045 that generate falls is remarkable in the sense of establishing strategies for their prevention. This work is part of masters research in progress and seeks to analyze the relationship between the physical barriers of the urban space adjacent to the Basic Health Units (Unidades Básicas de Saúde UBSs) and aging functional changes in relation to falls in the elderly. At this stage, it was employed the following methods: literature review to enable the state of the art, documental research in the records of the UBS responsible agencies in a medium-sized city, where data were collected in order to characterize them within their coverage area, and exploratory interviews. As a result of the research, the UBS were stratified as to own or rented head office, being selected the UBS which has its own space. From those, the number of people registered was highlighted and the total number of elderly and the percentage of older people relative to the population were registered. These results will contribute to the second part of the research that will characterize the urban space adjacent to the studied UBS related to the physical barriers; to identify the functional alterations caused by the aging process and to correlate them with the use of space; to check how the elderly perceive and behave in urban areas adjacent to UBS and to describe elderly mobility in urban areas adjacent to UBS. Research on the risk factors for elderly falls in extradomiciliar environment is justified since several studies have been conducted with institutionalized elderly or in the domestic environment and few have focused their relationship with the urban space.