STRATEGIC PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERVENTION IN HEALTH EDUCATION FOR THE TEACHING OF AMERICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS TO PROMOTE SELF-REGULATION

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.15941002418115

• Palavras-chave: Trypanosomiasis, American; Health Education; Project Pedagogy; Self-regulation; Primary Health Care.

• Keywords: Trypanosomiasis, American; Health Education; Project Pedagogy; Self-regulation; Primary Health Care.

• Abstract:

  American Trypanosomiasis is a parasitic disease that occurs widely in the Americas and has a biphasic clinical picture, with the chronic irreversible form leading to death, characterizing it as a public health problem. The aim of this article is to help educational practices about this disease to develop self-regulation, making it possible to delve deeper into its concepts through strategic planning that deals with the subject in the form of a pedagogical project based on the concept of socio-interactionism proposed by Vygotsky. This method centralizes the student in the schooling process, leading them to investigate and build their own knowledge as they promote teamwork, debate and solve problems dealt with in the conventional textbook through research and illustrative characterization of at least one regional endemic environment where parasitosis is present.