School Health Program: intervention project against dengue in Matinhos, State of Paraná, Brazil

Abstract

The School Health Program (PSE) aims to promote health actions in schools through pedagogical tools developed between  health and education. A study was carried  out in the city of Matinhos, State of Paraná,  Brazil, by the PSE within the scope of the  Luiz Carlos dos Santos municipal school  including 60 students from the 5th grades,  from March to August 2019. Characteristics  of participatory actionresearch and  problematization methodology were used,  being a type of social and qualitative study.  For data collection, the method of Charles  de Maguerez Arch was used. As research  result, a pedagogical tool  was developed at  school and in the community’, the  intervention project ‘School, health,  environment, and community mobilized  against the Aedes aegypti’. The study  proved that the application of existing public policies such as the PSE, through  intersectoriality, environmental health  education, and mechanical vector control  actions, without applicability of poison, are  appropriate actions for the disease  prevention, such as the elimination of  vector breeding sites; thus, making effective the use of environmental health education  in schools as a health promotion strategy.