Análisis cualitativo de la incidencia de la implementación de la Política Distrital de Salud Ambiental en el desarrollo local de la localidad de Santa Fe durante el periodo 2020–2025

Abstract

This research qualitatively analyzes the influence of the implementation of the District Environmental Health Policy – PDSA on local development in Santa Fe, Bogotá, D.C., during 2020–2025, considering the territory's socio-environmental conditions and challenges associated with the environmental determinants of health. The study examines actions implemented under the policy, prioritizing two components: air quality and integrated solid waste management, as well as their implications for the socioeconomic and environmental dimensions of local development. Methodologically, it adopts a qualitative, descriptive, and analytical approach, combining documentary review and semi-structured interviews with institutional and community stakeholders, using thematic analysis to examine the information collected. The findings reveal progress in solid waste management through the rehabilitation of critical areas, public space cleaning, community awareness initiatives, and intersectoral coordination, although challenges remain in ensuring the sustainability of these interventions. Regarding air quality, monitoring and risk prevention activities are identified, while the indicators analyzed reflect environmental problems whose transformation exceeds the scope of local interventions. The study also identifies contributions to institutional strengthening, community participation, and environmental education, constrained by limitations in resources, coordination, continuity, and monitoring. The policy's contribution to socioeconomic development is primarily indirect, without establishing a direct causal relationship with variables such as employment, income, or poverty. The study concludes that the PDSA influence on local development is partial, differentiated, and conditioned by institutional, social, and territorial factors. It recommends strengthening intersectoral coordination, meaningful community participation, institutional continuity, and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms based on outcome and impact indicators, promoting sustainable interventions aligned with territorial planning.