Abstract

GARCIA GUEVARA, Baílde; LUGO LUGO, Norelys  and  SALGADO SABEL, Antonio. An etnografhic view of the knowledge on dengue from the perspective of a group of children: Unidad Educativa Nacional Bolivariana "Armando Zuloaga Blanco". Distrito Capital, Venezuela. 2009. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2011, vol.9, n.1, pp.14-26. ISSN 1690-3293.

This paper presents the exploration of socio-cultural codes related with dengue in a group of school children with the purpose of obtaining data for the development of educational and social participation initiatives within the prevention and control framework of this endemia. Ethnographic type qualitative study carried out between March-December 2009 in a school population corresponding to 4th and 5th grade of basic education at the Bolivarian National Educational Unit Armando Zuloaga Blanco, Caracas, Venezuela. A combination of qualitative techniques was applied: direct observation of the participant, as well as the elaboration of a geo-reference for site identification of the behavior of potential breeding sites of aegypti at the school. The group participating in the study consisted in 216 school children distributed in seven sections, with ages between 9 and 16 years. Among the main results we found a profile of sociocultural codes associated to knowledge regarding dengue, as well as the risk map of the potential breeding sites of A. aegypti at different areas of the school. It was shown that the use of ethnography as methodological alterative to define socio-cultural codes of populations was obtained, as well as of its use as initial phase in the execution of educational and community participation programs related with dengue, to ensure the efficacy of their application and sustainability.

Keywords : Ethnography; dengue; georeferencing; Community Education.

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