Educação ambiental como ferramenta no controle da dengue na cidade de Cruzeiro do Oeste, PR

Abstract

This work aimed to raise epidemiological data of dengue cases in the city of Cruzeiro do Oeste - PR, in the years 2012 to 2015 and in 1991 the state of Paraná to 2015. A bibliographical and documentary research was performed using as a methodological resource to search epidemiological records provided by the environmental monitoring of the municipality and the Municipal Department of Health. It is associated disease with the temperature and humidity of the rainy season, because in this period there is an increase adult mosquito vector Aedes aegypti. The study found 398 cases of dengue notification in Cruzeiro do Oeste in 2015, counting from August 2012 to July 2015 more than 500 cases reported, the city has many resources to combat such disease as lectures, team of agents of composed endemic diseases for 11 employees for accomplishment of domiciliary visits, lectures, campaigns, spreading of educative material and one has equipped of health to take care and to help the victims of the illness, knowing that it can lead to death if left untreated. The front of it all, environmental education tries to bring awareness and a solution to this preventable outbreak that has spread not only in the city but in the whole country, dengue fever proliferates in stagnant water accumulation sites requiring citizens give not these conditions the mosquito. Spending on the disease in the country reached 4,2 billion reais in recent years, a high expenditure in view of the current financial situation of the country. The Aedes aegypti besides transmitting dengue, also transmits the chikungunya fever, zika virus and the urban form yellow fever, which makes him even dangerous more this one vector. The incidence of dengue cases in 2015 (up to October) in Brazil for every 100 thousand inhabitants was 367.8 in Paraná was 311.54 and in Cruzeiro do Oeste was 696.45. The only way to end the dengue is prevention.