Shares of education in environmental health surveillance for control of dengue in the district of Cruise Peixoto, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2008 / Ações de educação na vigilância ambiental em saúde para controle da dengue no distrito de Cruzeiro dos Peixotos, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brasil, 2008

Kênia Rezende

Dengue is a disease spread in tropical regions of the world where the climatic conditions associated with bad habits of the population, favor the presence of the vector and the virus, allowing the endemicity of the disease. Humans, the virus, the vector and the shelters of this vector are facts represented by the social space environment which, when associates with the precarious conditions of sanitation, housing, cultural and educational factors, establish the ecology of disease transmission. Aedes aegypti is the vector of the dengue virus and urban yellow fever. Its origin is Africa and it was found in the Americas soon after the continents discovery. Aedes aegypti oviposits in stagnant water within containers it deposits eggs slightly above the waterline. Currently, as there is no effective vaccine against dengue, a strategic variable for the control and prevention is focused in combating the mosquito, which is the weak link of the cycle. The success of initiatives; the relies of on legislation OBJECTIVE: Apply experimental model of Environmental Education and Environmental Health Surveillance for Aedes aegypti control, using as a measure of the infestation Adultrap, in the District Cruzeiro dos Peixotos, in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais. METHODOLOGY: This research began in December of 2006 and ended in May of 2008. This work was carried out a survey on literary Environmental Education, Health and Environmental Surveillance on Dengue including its vector, cycle and epidemiology. The first step was the implementation of a contact close to the school district to seek the support of the school in the accomplishment of the Project. Then came the installation of Adultrap the home of households with permission of the residents. The exchanges water and collection of insects are made each week (the Friday 13.30 to 17h). Gymkhana were held with participation of teachers and students, and with the residents of the District. Since April 2007, the capture with traps was supplemented in an interval of 24 hours. Mosquitoes attracted by the trap were collected by the research team, identified to genus and species, counted and data entered in a database. RESULTS: The actions make possible to withdrawal of 710 kg of recyclable material that could serve as breeding.They had been captured and identified to 187 Aedes aegypti, 48 Aedes albopictus and 888 Culex quinquefasciatus.

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