Estratégias para prevenção da dengue, zika e chikungunya desenvolvidas na região norte do Brasil: o Programa Saúde na Escola em foco

Abstract

The Health at School Program (PSE), implemented through Presidential Decree No. 6,286 / 2007, is an intersectoral policy between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education whose objective is to promote integral attention of prevention, promotion and health care of students in basic public education, within the scope of schools, in partnership with the Basic Family Health Units (UBS). This article aims to characterize the health education actions carried out in three municipalities in the northern region that are part of the national research project called ARBOCONTROL, coordinated by the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Brasília, component 3 Education, Information and Communication. The data were obtained from a semistructured interview applied to 34 teachers. The Prevention appears more frequently in reports, with lectures by the Health Units, however, teachers do not associate this strategy as an integrated action between the school and the health unit, arising from the PSE, but as a help from the “postinho”. This suggests weakness in the joint planning of themes that must be worked on side by side. This intersectoral gap is noted by the lack of knowledge and adherence to the official campaigns of the Ministry of Health (MS), as a pedagogical tool in the classroom, where 85.29% of the interviewed teachers are unaware of the campaign materials made available free of charge by the MS.