The use of popular health education as a strategy to control dengue: PET-Saúde inducing new health training practices

Abstract

It was an experience report from the PET-Saúde project whose object of intervention was the development of popular health education practices for dengue prevention and control actions, with the setting of the Local Health Councils (CLS). The purpose of this study is to describe the experience and its contribution to the process of training future health professionals. The activities were developed during 2014 and in the end 19 CLS were visited. It identified a limitation in the participation of users in instances of social control; the need to (re) signify popular health education practices; and the importance of intensifying the teaching-service-community articulation based on experiences based on new pedagogical approaches, as a way to enable the construction of learning that enables the critical exercise of health work.