Educação sanitária: avaliação de cartoons educativos em escolas rurais

Abstract

Currently, the concept "One World, One Health", which is also called Single Health, is being debated, highlighting the link between human health and animal health. It is observed that, in the last centuries, there was a greater approximation of the animals to the human conviviality, and an increase of their interactions. In addition, in order to respond to the demand of the estimated 9 billion inhabitants of the planet by 2050, it will require 60% more food. To achieve this, it will be necessary to optimize and intensify production, leading to the emergence of diseases and, consequently, the consumption of medicines. However, there is already great multiresistance of several pathogens due to the indiscriminate use of antimicrobials. And this, in turn, favored the resurgence of diseases that were once controlled. Therefore, it is necessary to educate the population about sanitation, so that we can produce more, and more efficiently. In order to evaluate the success in health promotion and diffusion, three educational cartoons ("One world, one health", "The least possible and only when necessary" and "Healthy anima ls, healthy world") were used , belonging to the organization HealthforAnimals. The knowledge of the students between 6th and 9th grade, from schools in the rural area of Santa Maria-RS, was analyzed before the material and soon after its presentation. It was observed that, prior knowledge by the pre-test, the children obtained an average of 56.81% correct, showing that there was previous knowledge about the subject above 50%, and that, 70.76% of the children improved his performances with the cartoons. It was concluded that the materials were efficie nt for learning in the topics covered, and it is conjectured that the use of educational and interactive materials make the subject more attractive and allows a better understanding.