The Graduate Program in Nursing develops studies and technologies aimed at nursing, health, education, ethics and work, dedicated to populations residing in different coastal ecosystems, which are conceived as co-responsible for changes in their health profile. The Program's researches include aspects of human vulnerability related to climate changes and socio-environmental health, highlighting the relationships between individuals and social groups with conditions typical of this coastal and harbor city, such as environmental pollution as a consequence of the activities developed by local industries; the arrival of ships with crew from different parts of the country and the world; the handling of toxic loads, with risk of environmental disasters; urban and intra-family violence; the indiscriminate use of illicit substances and the spread of sexually transmitted infections, among others. In recent years, the Program has been studying the phenomenon of immigration of populations from different regions of the country, during the period of peak and decline of the naval industry, and its repercussions on human health. In this context, the Program proposes actions aimed at the diagnosis, prevention and control of diseases and harms that affect human health and quality of life. Such actions use health promotion strategies and disease prevention; investigate trends and forms to control epidemics of port regions and/or related to social vulnerability including, among others, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections. The studies seek, therefore, to minimize human vulnerability related to climate changes and the sustainability of socio-environmental health. In summary, the environmental, social, cultural and institutional characteristics are references that attribute to the Program a peculiar characteristic in the process of human resources training and production of knowledge regarding human health in the coastal ecosystems. At the same time, they determine the direction of their actions in order to qualify for the confrontation of problems and respond to health demands in coastal ecosystems, which manifest locally but are of national and global scope. Internationally, the Program maintains cooperation with the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) in Canada; the University of Murcia and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spain and the University of Cape Verde -UniCV

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