Ações de controle do Aedes spp.: perspectivas dos agentes de combate às endemias em um município do estado da Bahia

Abstract

The incidence of tropical diseases vector such as Dengue, the Chikunguya fever and Zika Virus is recurrent, making it an urgente need to promote actions to combat mosquitoes. Therefore, the current exploratory research aims to provide subsidies to municipal management to improve actions to fight Aedes spp., through research of interfaces of the activities of the endemic fighting agents in fieldwork. With use of pre established questionnaire information was obtained about the environmental issues, social, operational and depicting problems contact with the community. The answers were categorized, and obtained the following categories: Trash, bad weather, sewage, vacant lots, recyclers unstructured, crime, housing / low-income, broken families, lack of hygiene, education / culture, effective, material, uniforms, medical evaluation, vehicles, training, projects, intersectoral, management, employee appreciation, neglect, distance from the fulcrum, lack of commitment / awareness, refusal / resistance, and knowledge / zoning. It was found that the design of agentes to combat endemic diseases in the city studied about the activities related to the control of Aedes spp.. cross by a number of impediments to achieve its main objectives, which are influenced directly in environmental, operational and sóciocultural issues. To minimize these difficulties, the same glimpse of municipal management practices suggesting actions related to environmental sanitation, education, solid waste, surveillance, availability of equipment, geographic information systems implementation, occupational health of workers, training and retraining and public tender. Regarding the sectoral management, it is suggested that strategies should be developed for minimizing the temporal aspects, health education activities, inter-institutional committee, strategic planning and review meetings involving staff.