A Educação em Saúde para a prevenção de doenças parasitárias: análise descritiva da experiência em extensão universitária

Abstract

Health education can be understood as a combination of planned learning actions and experiences aimed at enabling people to gain control over health determinants and behaviors. Educational projects in this line, aimed at the population, allow citizens to have knowledge and means to apply in their daily lives to prevent diseases such as parasitosis, for example. Parasitosis are diseases that affect humans and usually result from poor sanitation, affecting mainly groups with low socioeconomic status. This work consists of an experience report on an extension project carried out from 2018 to 2021, in which several interdisciplinary actions were developed in public schools and in conjunction with other projects such as workshops, lectures, conversation circles, and educational games with the aim of guiding the population in relation to parasitic diseases. During the pandemic of COVID-19, our project sought other ways in its 2020 version, making its content available in media such as Instagram through the formation of its own profile and the making of a booklet. Thus, the extension project Health Education for the Prevention of Parasitic Diseases, carried out by Pharmacy undergraduate students of FACFAN/UFMS, aimed to act as a complement in the training of students and to bring Health Education to the community.