DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN HEALTH EDUCATION ABOUT HIV, TUBERCULOSIS AND LEPROSY

Abstract

This study analyzed the discourses of 8th grade students from a municipal school in Fortaleza-Ceará, evidenced in the interrogative constructions produced in the webradio as health education strategies. Methodology. Qualitative and exploratory studies, anchored in the literature review. The research unarchived interrogative discursive constructions of the youths mobilized by the health-promoting communication in the program, In Tune with Health of the Web Radio Ajir, of the State University of Ceará, as an integral part of the Master's dissertation of the Graduate Program in Clinical Care in Nursing and Health.

Result. The strategies of problematizing the reception of the communication of the programs with the themes, Sexually Transmitted Infections and neglected diseases, Tuberculosis and Leprosy, boosted the participation and problematization of the participants, which led to the analysis of 5 questions-discourses addressed in the digital program. From these questions, discursive analysis and poems were produced, revealing a little lyricism in the face of complex themes. Discussion. Neglected diseases, such as tuberculosis and leprosy, along with HIV challenge health systems in the efficiency of treatment and self-care for their elimination and eradication. Despite the advances in treatment, care and prevention, evidenced in the creation of public policies, prevention through information, education and drug production, these policies have been suffering setbacks and leaving populations on the margins of care and prevention. Conclusion. The discursive constructions carried out by the students pointed to the biomedical model and to the need to classify pathologies as a way to understand them, demonstrating that models centered on self-care and preventive are little known.