WATER-BASED DISEASES IN THE SCHOOL CONTEXT
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47180/omij.v2i1.102Keywords:
HHealth at School Program, School Community, Health Education, Hygiene HabitsAbstract
The disorderly and unplanned growth of cities, especially in the Brazilian semiarid region, alerts us to very worrying issues regarding the regular access of the population to drinking water. Given this, the objective was to identify the level of knowledge and awareness of high school students in relation to waterborne diseases and prophylactic measures, in two schools of the State Education network in the city of Campina Grande-PB. Thus, a field research was carried out, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, through questionnaires with open and closed questions, in the period from August to December 2019, in two high schools of the state network in Campina Grande-PB. It was possible to detect that most students still have weak perceptions about preventive, prophylactic and treatment measures. They are totally unaware of the actions of the PSF with the school community, and most of the students surveyed have never had a parasitological stool test. Unfortunately, in Campina Grande-PB, health education actions are still lacking in the schools surveyed and there is an evident lack of knowledge about hygiene measures, prevention and treatment of waterborne diseases.
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