Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya are viral diseases that afect millions of people of the
entire world. They are transmitted by the female gender of the moskito Aedes aegypti
and today, they are presente in all brazilian territory. The Ministry of Health and
Ministry of Education created a program called School Health, which approaches
about ways of prevention for these diseases and the promotion of health. It’s school’s
and teacher’s responsibility, as health promoters, to spread the knowledge about the
vector, its characteristics and etiological agents. In this research, we verified the
effects of prevention campaigns and awareness in students of a federal institution,
evaluating the researched population knowledge about the vector and its etiological
agents, comparing the level of knowledge of the different educational levels. Coming
from the idea that health education is liked to the meaningful learning, the tool for this
research was a semi-open quiz, which application was done in two steps: 1) The quiz
was applied to check the students previous knowledge. 2) The quiz was applied after
classes with exhibition of a biology didactic video about the vector and its diseases
social-political-economical implications using a PowerPoint® presentation with recent
and contextualized information about these arboviruses. As result of the first
avaliation, we noticed that campaigns that are external of the schools environment
had better impact in every researched class. We verified a difference between
classes from the graduation level and high school level, with a better development in
the first ones. Its suggested that more intense activities about diseases prevention
can be done inside of the institution and more attention to be given to the contents
related to this theme in courses of teachers formation willing that the promotion of
health be na activity independent of the promotional campaigns only done during the
epidemics.
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