Ações de combate à dengue na regional Nordeste de Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais

Abstract

Dengue is nowadays a reality in the Basic Health Units. In Northwest´s Gloria´s Regional Health Center in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, since there was an evidence of risk of a major outbreak occurred in this area of coverage, people have launched effective actions in order to combat dengue. This incident came from the Quicks Surveys Index for Aedes Aegypti and the actions carried out by Family Healths Staff, from january to may 2010. The target´s proposed was to mobilize the local community to build strong positive attitudes so as to combat dengue in which the man goal is to speed up the reduction in the number of cases. The actions developed were: Building the Health´s Local Board to increase the supervision of homes and vacant lots, the construction of major task forces, lectures about ways of preventing dengue and its partnerships, training and qualification of professionals health to reduce time of screening and immediate care for people suspicious of dengue. This experience showed that the actions to combat dengue have become efficient in a way the Family Health teams, together with the local community have made prevention programs before becoming a local dengue epidemic.