Plano de intervenção para reduzir a presença de parasitoses intestinais em crianças da comunidade do Alecrim, em Girau do Ponciano - AL

Abstract

One of the major public health problems consists of intestinal parasites, which contribute to high morbidity and mortality rates especially in developing countries. The high prevalence varies according to the sanitation of local conditions, cultural habits and lack of health education. It gets worse when we consider rural areas whose populations generally have low socioeconomic status and living in precarious conditions of sanitation. The main affected by parasitic diseases are children of school age, they present hygiene, for the most part, inadequate and a less competent immune system. Furthermore, human conglomeration in schools and nurseries favors the spread of infectious agents. The objective of this work is to propose an action plan with a view to reducing intestinal parasites in children of Alecrim community. This study was conducted through literature review, with the descriptors: worms, primary health care and primary prevention; using the research bases Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Virtual Health Library (VHL), Ministry of Health and materials available in the virtual library. In addition, we performed situation analysis and Situational Strategic Planning (PES) along with the staff of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and further development of the intervention plan. So for prevention and control of intestinal parasites, the interventions proposed in this study were based on health promotion activities, health education, home visits and epidemiological surveillance to be developed by the team of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) of the Alecrim community.