Assessment of the knowledge about dengue fever in pupils at the municipal schools in the city of Cordoba, Argentina

Abstract

Dengue: To determine the level of Knowledge of the children of 6to Degree of the Municipal Schools of the City of Cordoba. Perspective for the Prevention The Dengue is an increasing problem of world-wide health, where single in the region of the Américas the four serotypes of dengue circulate; and where it is probable that the magnitude of the problem of dengue/dengue hemorrhagic, it continues increasing, due to the alarming increase of the vector Aedes Aegypti. The promotion and the prevention of the health are an urgent priority. It mainly assures the right to the health in the childhood, it is responsibility of all and it is the investment that each society must make to generate through the creative and productive capacity of the society everything and the young people in special, sustainable a social and human futureThe new generation of Programs of Prevention and Control of the Dengue demands changes in the management of the programs, demands changes in the profile of the programs. The strategies of control before applied no longer are applicable to the present reality, due to the changes of the situation social, demographic, economic and political of the countries. It is for that reason that stops to have success in the new programs is due to incorporate a communitarian sense with base in the appropriation of the control problem. From this work arises the present that it has like objective to determine the level of knowledge of the children of scholastic age, since the author is convinced that the continuous qualification in the classrooms, next to the already existing programs, will produce great changes for the re-emergent and easily preventives diseases.

For it a previous survey was made that determined the level of knowledge of the children, and after the made factories it was come to carry out another survey of equal characteristics to first. One concludes that evidently it is begun with a high percentage of ignorance on the part of the pupils, but which through the made factories where the children are active part of such and the professionals single guides in the task, these young people acquired the knowledge and they introduced in his costume, since the second survey responds to the expectations of the author widely It is through the present work that confirms the necessity of a change of strategies in the programs of scholastic health, where this must be united of systematic and continuous way to all the other programs of prevention. It is essential to use the communitarian participation and the education in health outside the epidemics and emergencies to be able to maintain with successes the results during the same ones Education continues in form of factories in the scholastic population, like way of promotion and prevention of the transmissible diseases. The solution for the disease of the Dengue and therefore other transmissible ones is to aim towards a holística vision in the promotion, a glance that promotes changes of behaviors, non single in the community but also, in the way as the programs of prevention and control are being carried out.