Abstract
Objective: The study aims to analyze the influence of socio-environmental factors resulting from the construction of the Tucuruí Hydroelectric Power Plant and its impact on malaria, through the analysis of the epidemiological profile of Malaria cases from the year 2012-2018 in Tucuruí. Methods: This is a study with a quantitative approach of an observational epidemiological nature of the analytical type of a retrospective ecological design, carrying out an investigation of epidemiological data on malaria in the municipality of Tucuruí. The study population had been reported cases of malaria during the years 2012 to August 2018 in urban and rural areas of the municipality of Tucuruí-PA. Results: It was found that the activity of the Tucuruí Hydroelectric Plant in the region, directly implied in the increase of public health problems in the community in question, such as: increase in the number of mosquitoes, population relocation due to floods, increase in the occurrence of new cases of malaria. Conclusion: The objectives of the work were achieved, making it possible to form the epidemiological profile of the reported cases of malaria in Tucuruí, as well as to correlate them to the construction of the HPP according to the literature on the subject, thus concluding that there are direct parallels between the prevalence of Local malaria with the presence of the local hydroelectric plant.