Educação sanitária e ambiental para reduzir os índices de verminoses na área de abrangência da ESF José Loureiro de Albuquerque - Viçosa, Alagoas: plano de intervenção

Abstract

Intestinal parasitosis represent a serious public heath problem in the world, with high prevalence in the poorest populational groups. The community assisted by the José Loureiro de Albuquerque Basic Unit of Health (BUH) does not have basic sanitation, depending on wells and on Paraíba River, lack of a sewerage system, precarious nutrition of individuals and housing conditions. This job represent a proposal of intervention for the José Loureiro de Albuquerque BUH, city of Viçosa-Alagoas, aiming sanitary and environmental education as features to reduce the prevalence of worms in the community. The project design was made through previous performance of situational diagnosis in the catchment area of the BUH. Data were colected through the active observation of the population and in the Information System of Primary Attention (ISPA). From there, the health team has related some problems, being the "High rate of worms" elected as the main one, the "critical knots" were elaborated, and then, the intervention project aiming to reduce the prevalence of high level of worms in the community.