Education, communication and social mobilization, health promotion strategies in vector monitoring in rural settlements

possibilities and challenges

Abstract

This work is the result of the Conversation Circle held during the V University Day in Defense of Land Reform, which has a direct relationship of partnerships in vector monitoring between the Federal University of Uberlândia Technical School of Health, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology - Uberlândia Campus and Association of Autonomous Recyclers and Pickers. Environmental degradation has spread arboviruses, including Aedes (Aegypti and albopictus) and Culex and its arboviruses. In urban areas Dengue, Chikungunya, West Nile Fever, Zika, Rocio and Mayaro; in rural (and even urban) environments, and in some wild cases, we have sand flies, popularly called “straw mosquito” or “cangalhinha” responsible for Visceral Leishmaniasis and/or Tegumentary Leishmaniasis; Haemagogus and Sabethes are responsible for the Yellow Wild Fever. The Conversation Circle occurred in the conception and dialogical construction about “What I do, what I know and what we need to know about environmental health in relation to vectors”, considering people’s styles and ways of life. Therefore, the importance of an educational process, communication and social mobilization, as a ways to establish healthy environments, as strategies of health promotion.