Health education actions as a prevention and control strategy for intestinal parasites: a systematic literature review study

• Autor(a) principal: Vasconcelos, Welida Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Silva-Vasconcelos, Adenildo da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/19301
• topic: Parasitosis intestinal; Enteroparasitosis; Promoción de la salud; Educación para la salud.; Intestinal parasitosis; Enteroparasitosis; Health promotion; Health education.; Parasitoses intestinais; Enteroparasitoses; Promoção da saúde; Educação em saúde.

In Brazil, intestinal parasites represent an important public health problem, being endemic in several regions, especially those where living conditions are negatively influenced by factors resulting from poverty, precarious housing conditions, poor drinking water supply, basic sanitation and population educational deficit. The Ministry of Health established the development of Health Promotion actions, through health education, aiming to create prevention and control strategies to reduce the prevalence, morbidity and mortality of intestinal parasites in the country. This study aimed to identify, in the Brazilian scientific literature, the Health Promotion actions carried out for the prevention and control of intestinal parasites in the country. This is a systematic literature review of 18 articles collected on the MEDLINE, SciELO, Virtual Health Library, Capes Journal Portal and Google Scholar online database platforms published from 2015 to 2020. The analysis of the publications allowed us to infer which actions Health education programs are an effective prophylactic tool for learning about intestinal parasites, their causative agents and about ways of prevention and control. These actions are low-cost and easily developed by professionals of any training, in different contexts, population realities and spaces of professional activity, such as schools, Basic Health Unit, especially with children and young people through the use of playful educational activities, games, theater, music, literature, macromodel assembly and preserved specimen demonstrations.