Abstract
This paper analyzes the impact of initiatives toward raising awareness, refreshing and training by organizing and conducting forums and training courses aimed at health care professionals and community leaders who work in some cities of Rio de Janeiro (extending that initiative to a city in Minas Gerais). It addresses the topic of “neglected and reemerging diseases”, which has been previously deemed of interest to interlocutors involved in that proposal, especially representatives of municipal health secretariats and civil associations of a communal nature. It should be noted that thematic contents and methodological and pedagogical strategies value objective communication that is easy to understand, without compromising scientific quality. Another aim was to expand scientific information as support to amplify communication with the government in order to help develop public policies, which translate as healthcare actions targeting neglected diseases. Our conclusion is that it is vital for healthcare professionals, community leaders and government representatives to take part in such events in order to discuss and develop collective proposals based on qualified information about the identified themes as local health priorities to minimize the impact and progress of those diseases.
Highlights
The most relevant public health programs in global terms highlight how urgent it is to implement resources, including training healthcare professionals and technological innovation as crucial items to develop controls and/or solutions for neglected diseases and for re-emerging diseases, considering how close the two realities are, since neglected diseases have great potential to resurface
It should be noted that many researchers and managers prefer to use the concept of emerging and re-emerging diseases to refer to this group of diseases
According to Brazil’s epidemiological surveillance, emerging and re-emerging diseases are defined “as clinically distinct infectious diseases which have been recently acknowledged, or an unknown disease whose incidence is increasing in a given place or among a specific population
Summary
The most relevant public health programs in global terms highlight how urgent it is to implement resources, including training healthcare professionals and technological innovation as crucial items to develop controls and/or solutions for neglected diseases and for re-emerging diseases, considering how close the two realities are, since neglected diseases have great potential to resurface. Themes and methodologies for presentation sparked significant interest among healthcare professionals They expressed a wish to organize a few initiatives targeting greater epidemiological visibility for the region and expanding knowledge about neglected and/or emerging and re-emerging diseases in order to broaden the view on solutions for problems that are in the realm of public health, of health education and prevention, with the additional aim of raising awareness among the population about the importance of adopting habits that will translate into prevention goals, in addition to establishing a dialog with the government in order to enable public policies, reflected in healthcare action toward neglected diseases. We should note that such events, forums and refresher and training courses targeted the goal of training multipliers, in an attempt to cater to local demand identified among students, healthcare professionals and community leaders
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