Ações de educação em saúde para a prevenção e controle do dengue

Abstract

This study aims to identify the educational actions in dengue control. For a survey of articles in the literature on the proposed topic was held an integrative review, whose search was made on the basis of national banks as the Health Virtual Health Library - VHL (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information Health), Database of Nursing (BDENF) Scientific electronic library online (SciELO) and in Post-graduate CAPES, indexed in these databases between the years 1997 to 2008. We prepared an instrument for data collection, consisting of data to the author (profession, title, place of work), and publishing data on the study variables. The results showed that the professional training of the first author of articles, 46% of them are professors and researchers, teachers 36% 9% 9% a biologist and technologist. In relation to the titration of the authors, it appears that there is a predominance of doctors (55%), followed by Masters (27%) and post-doctors (18%). In the case of disclosure of the vehicle, 73% of studies were published in SCIELO, 18% in BIREME, and 9% in the Graduate Program CAPES. As the year of publication, it was observed that were published between the years 1997 to 2008 in different journals, of which 4 are in Bull World Health Organ, 4 Interface - Communication, Health, one in the terms of Public Health, 1 in Rev. Soc Bras. Trop, one in the Post-graduate CAPES. With respect to study design, we highlight the qualitative with 73%, followed by qualitative and quantitative 18% and 9% quantitative. It was concluded that health education developed mainly by health professionals, is as timely as health promotion, and contributes to the integrity of health care, preventing and controlling dengue. However, we emphasize that there is a need to reformulate the educational activities, in order to make them more efficient, how to engage the population in the prevention of dengue, through the practice of the necessary control measures, which according the studies analyzed, there has been sufficient to reduce the levels of infestation of vectors of dengue.