Health education and social representation: an experience with the control of tegumentary leishmaniasis in an endemic area in Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Dener Carlos Dos Reis¹  Andréa Gazzinelli¹  Carolina Angélica De Brito Silva¹  Maria Flávia Gazzinelli¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Escola de Enfermagem Belo Horizonte,Brasil

关键词: Health Education;    Educational Models;    Leishmaniasis;    Endemic Diseases;    Educação em Saúde;    Modelos Educacionais;    Leishmaniose;    Doenças Endêmicas;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-311X2006001100004

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This study was developed in an endemic area of tegumentary leishmaniasis in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with the objective of analyzing a health education process based on the social representations theory. The educational model was developed in two phases with 34 local residents. In the first phase, social representations of leishmaniasis were identified and analyzed. The second phase was based on the interaction between social representations and scientific knowledge. The results showed that social representations were structured in a central core by the terms "wound" and "mosquito" and in the peripheral system by the terms "mountains", "standing water", and "injection" related respectively to place, transmission, and treatment of the disease. We concluded that tegumentary leishmaniasis is viewed as a wound caused by a mosquito, portrayed by metaphors. The results of the second phase showed that social representations are systems that favor adherence to scientific knowledge, at times more rigidly in the central core, other times more flexibly when linked to the peripheral systems.

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