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ARTIGO ARTICLE

Atividades de controle do dengue na visão de seus agentes e da população atendida,
São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil
Dengue control as viewed by agents and the target population in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
Virgínia Baglini 1
Eliane Aparecida Favaro 2
Aline Chimello Ferreira 3
Francisco Chiaravalloti Neto
Adriano Mondini 2
Margareth R. Dibo 3
Angelita A. C. Barbosa 2
Amena A. Ferraz 4
Marisa B. Cesarino 4

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Abstract
1 Pontifícia Universidade
Católica de São Paulo,
São Paulo, Brasil.
2 Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto,
São José do Rio Preto, Brasil.
3 Superintendência de
Controle de Endemias,
São José dos Campos, Brasil.
4 Secretaria Municipal de Saúde e Higiene de São José do Rio Preto,
São José do Rio Preto, Brasil.
Correspondência
F. Chiaravalloti Neto
Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto.
Rua Benjamin Constant
3741, apto. 77,
São José do Rio Preto, SP
15015-600, Brasil. [e-mail] Introdução

The aim of this article was to identify daily situations experienced by dengue control agents in their relationship to local residents. A cross-sectional study applied questionnaires among vector control agents, community health workers, and a sample of local women. The answers by the dengue control agents and community health workers were grouped in the categories of work, private life, and community. The women were asked about the relationship with the vector control and community health workers. The difficulties cited in the private and work areas by the vector control agents were different from those reported by community health workers. At the community level they coincided and showed that neither group is adequately prepared to deal with these issues. Of the local women interviewed,
87.0% reported that they were well-informed or very well-informed about dengue, 84.0% stated that the work by the vector control agents and