Educação em saúde: atuação de estudantes do ensino médio na prevenção de IST

Abstract

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) represent a public health problem. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) in the world there are more than one million cases per day, about 360 million per year, being in Brazil about 500 thousand cases. This problem could be mitigated if health education were strengthened in schools, with the support of the competent bodies. However, in regular education the theme of STI is currently taught with the subjects Male and Female Genital Systems and microorganisms in the didactic sequence proposed by the textbooks. Thus, the present work aims to make learning more meaningful in the usual didactic sequence, and to improve the approach of the subject of STI among high school students. Once these students appropriated the knowledge about STIs and the importance of their prevention, they were challenged to create an approach to STIs and their forms of prevention for elementary school students. This pedagogical strategy of active methodologies, in which the student is the protagonist of his own learning and still multiplier of information, awakens their critical and reflective sense and their learning in this phase of transformation that is adolescence. Prevention Day “D”, the culmination of the proposal, was supported by the Municipal Department of Education, bringing to school an effective preventive measure for HPV vaccination. It is suggested that vaccination campaigns be regular within schools. It is concluded that health education will only be effective when there is the union and joint work of government, society (family) and school. Silva-Sobrinho et al. (2017) state that interpersonal health education, being effective with well-trained professionals, requires strategic permanent action plans.