Abstract
The environmental control of the vector inside and around households, as a fundamental strategy for the prevention of arboviruses such as dengue, zika and chikungunya, demands an uninterrupted involvement of the population. The pandemic context of Covid-19, and consequently the social isolation has reduced professional surveillance in the households, making the performance of the population even more necessary. Studies that seek to understand the involvement of communities in the implementation of preventive actions have been almost exclusively local. This article reports an intervention research based on workshops on preventive practices carried out before social isolation, in 16 municipalities in the five Brazilian regions and involved 379 participants. Our results show the preventive actions recommended by campaigns that are the most commonly understood and performed by the population; situations that hinder execution; preventive practices of citizens' own initiative; and practices based on popular knowledge. It became evident that information to communities cannot be restricted to mass campaigns, and that it is necessary to invest in educational actions adequate to the variety of national contexts, seeking collective and intersectoral constructions of strategies to confront arboviruses.
Keywords:
Arboviruses; Community participation; Vector control; Covid-19.