EDUCATIONAL ROLE PLAYING FOR THE PREVENTION OF DENGUE FEVER: STRATEGY DEVELOPED BY A HEALTHCARE AGENT

Introduction and goal: work developed by Community Health Agents (ACS) in the Family Clinic Nildo Aguiar, to combat dengue in the territory through children 2-8 years, with a creative educational work. Method: The presentation is made through ACS dressed as dengue mosquito, singing a song dedicated to the control and combat the disease. The performances are accomplished in plazas, schools, churches and health itself unity. Children are warned of the beginning of the theater, where after this there is the entry of mosquitoes and places that would be the focus of transmitting Aedes aegypti, after mosquito disappears and then the children interact collecting and eliminating all outbreaks, with the return of Mosquito with no form of reproduction, it runs the place, and transmitted the message to children. Results and conclusions: With the realization of the educational theater found themselves children‘s learning, teaching and ask parents the necessary changes to end existing outbreaks and prevent the proliferation of the mosquito. During this experience, we can see the interaction of children and expand their knowledge, which were transmitted to those responsible. The child while training process is the best existing health multiplier and tends to use the information with their families, making it effectively a transforming agent.