Avaliação do conhecimento dos alunos do ensino fundamental das escolas públicas de São Luís sobre o controle de zoonoses

Abstract

Health education is a very effective tool for transmitting knowledge to children and adolescents. The objective of this project was to provide to elementary school students from four public schools in São Luís-MA, basic information about the prevention of zoonoses and the importance of the veterinarian in their control. This happened through lectures, application of questionnaires and distribution of informative folders, where a total of 126 students participated from the 5th to the 8th grade. The results showed that before the lectures few students knew the zoonoses and their forms of transmission and later to them, this number has increased significantly. It is concluded that the educational system is flawed in relation to the approach of health education and this problem is mitigated as the development of works with this, which is proven when comparing the students' previous knowledge about the topics covered and the knowledge after lectures.