RESUMO
Since dengue fever has only recently appeared in the city of Marília, São Paulo, State, Brazil, and no fatal cases of the disease have yet to occur, dengue prevention is not a local priority. A dengue prevention program in one neighborhood made the tires, cans and bottles where mosquitoes breed its focus, and conducted an ethnography of refuse, including local classification of materials as useful or disposable in preparation for and educational intervention. The initial assumption was that patterns of refuse disposal are and individual choice, influenced by relatively static cultural definitions of what constitutes refuse. This gave way over the course of the project to a new, more dynamic and contextualized view, allowing for the influence of a system of selective refuse collection with participation of both householders and informal refuse collectors. The implications of the findings for programs to control other emerging infectious diseases are discussed.
Assuntos
Masculino , Feminino , Humanos , Dengue Grave/epidemiologia , Dengue Grave/imunologia , Dengue Grave/microbiologia , Dengue Grave/sangue , Dengue Grave/transmissão , Dengue Grave/virologiaRESUMO
In Marilia, Brazil, community newsletters were established in a pilot project on community-based Aedes aegypti control. The newsletters were an excellent way of promoting communication between community members and project personnel, Wile people might not have attended a dengue meeting, and they did turn up at meetings to plan the newsletters. During these meetings project that targeted many Aedes aegypti larval habitats. The newsletters were not an appropriate channel for transmitting information about dengue prevention and mosquito control.