Plano de ação no combate a dengue: educar para evitar

Abstract

Dengue is the most important arboviral disease transmitted by insect that affects humans today; there are more than 100 countries with about 03 billion people exposed. Followed epidemics has been happening year after year in Brazil, in the southeast, especially in Minas Gerais, in 2014 there were 59222 reports of dengue cases. The Divinopolis follows the same trend, with 4680 notifications and 4139 confirmed cases and 6 deaths, despite the actions of epidemiological surveillance in this city. The southeastern region of the city consists of several neighborhoods, including the Neighborhood Santos Dumont, Unit's operating area Basic Health Santos Dumont who reported 101 cases of dengue in 2014. Given this situation arose the need to intensify educational activities in partnership with local schools, with a view to the School Health Program, diabetics and hypertensive groups and users of UBS Santos Dumont in order to reduce the number of cases of the disease. This study aims to develop an action plan with the participation and popular mobilization for the realization of clean-ups, mapping of dirty lots, and intensification of educational activities, focusing on community autonomy so that it has a critical view of new health and disease processes, and also make people aware that they may be able to promote and prevent situations that can bring harm to your health.