SINGLE HEALTH AND TENIASIS/CYSTICERCOSIS COMPLEX: RELATIONSHIP WITH BASIC SANITATION, CLEAN WATER AND HEALTH EDUCATION

Abstract

One Health is a growing concept that encompasses the global approach that aims to sustainably promote human, animal and environmental health. The Teniasis/Cysticercosis complex is a parasitic disease capable of causing economic losses, due to the compromising of animals for consumption by the population, as well as harm to human health, both in treatable forms and in more serious forms that can lead to death. The main objective of this work is to present how One Health and the complete Teniasis/Cysticercosis are related and how the topic is developed in the school environment. Firstly, a bibliographical research was carried out on the topic and then a lecture and a game were developed that were applied in a public school in the Municipality of Paty do Alferes. Bearing in mind that everyone has the right to basic sanitation, drinking water and adequate personal and environmental hygiene conditions, health education presents itself as a tool that promotes the health of humans, animals and the environment. Therefore, it is necessary for actions to be developed and applied in the school environment so that children and adolescents have knowledge and that families are reached by knowledge about diseases such as Teniasis and Cysticercosis, as well as their form of contagion, transmission, control and treatment, in order to improve the health conditions of the population.