Abstract

MARRUFFO, Marco; BULLONES, Xiomara  and  ONTIVEROS, Yudith. Field work with an ecohealth approach for preventing and controllyng Dengue. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.2, suppl., pp.1-5. ISSN 1690-3293.

In order to apply the Epidemiology knowledge and the fundamentals of the ecohealth approach for dengue prevention and control, field activities with nursing students from the Centro Occidental Lisandro Alvarado University were done, it took place in the community of Tamaquita parish Cují Tamaca, Iribarren, in Lara state, which included a) information to community residents on the aims and institutional character of the field activities; b) a Workshop on Dengue prevention and control, and ecohealth approach by integrating students, community and facilitators; c) application of a research instrument in order to know health needs, social and living conditions, risk perceptions, attitudes about health and role of community members. The developed activities facilitated community participation in order to eliminate useless discarded water containers in and out their homes and the application of larvicide Abate (Temephos) to the water tanks. The results showed the role of the Community Council, the community knowledge about Aedes aegypti breeding sites, and the identification of the houses where Dengue cases occurred; however low motivation of young people for the Prevention and Control of Dengue were perceived. We conclude on the need to promote community work to encourage behavioral changes in young people about health care and especially activated for the Dengue prevention and control.

Keywords : Community work; dengue; ecohealth approach.