HEALTH EDUCATION ON ASTHMA: A SOCIAL ACTION RELEVANT AWARENESS TO THE POPULATION

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: Asthma is an airways' chronic inflammatory disease common at all ages that affects about 300 million people worldwide and is the major cause of hospitalizations. Therefore, the League of Dermatology, Allergy and Rheumatology (LIDAR), from the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), accepted our advisor's invitation, Dr. Fabiane Pomiecinski, to participate of a public social action about the most prevalent allergies in communities, focusing on asthma.METHODS: The group met to talk about the action. The space and the material (banners, leaflets and equipment to perform the lung function deficit test) were provided by our guiding supported by the Brazilian Association of Allergy and Immunopathology (ASBAI). The conducting activity's location was the ground zero of Barra do Ceará, determined by the central event organization, called "Well Global Living - Fortress", a Globo's project that provides free health services whose target audience was the Fortaleza's metropolitan area population. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The social action occurred on October 30, 2015, with more than 1000 visitors. The project also had a partnership with SESI / EC Green System Mares, medical alloys of many universities and associations and medical societies. Our stand received many curious visitors because they had doubts about their health problems and did not know basic information about asthma (symptoms, ways to prevent and to treat). We also offered a pulmonary function test, peak flow, to people with asthma's symptoms. We concluded that citizens need more education and public awareness in health and should be the focus of social actions.