ESTRATEGIA EDUCATIVA SOBRE HIGIENE AMBIENTAL. SECTOR EL CALVARIO, PARROQUIA PICOAZÁ, PORTOVIEJO

Abstract

Maintaining the sanitary conditions of the environment in perfect condition is in order to prevent people's health from being affected, encompassing air, water, natural resources, soil, flora or fauna, everything is part of a good environmental hygiene; hence the interest in developing the present work called educational strategy on environmental hygiene in the El Calvario sector, Picoazá parish, Portoviejo canton, whose main objective was to promote an educational strategy on environmental hygiene through an intervention plan to reduce risks and complications in the health of the inhabitants of this sector, working for this with a methodology that consisted of a community development project of the participatory action research type, with a population comprised of a community leader and 25 inhabitants who are heads of households in said sector, using the techniques of the key informant and structured interview, which made it possible to identify the most felt needs such as little knowledge of environmental hygiene, extreme poverty, scarcity of vital liquid, total absence of a garbage collector, little hygiene practice in homes, use of cesspools (latrines ) outside the dwelling, burning of indis criminalized. With these problems identified and prioritized by the ranking method, educational prevention activities were planned that gave the opportunity to educate and instruct the residents in 96.70% about environmental hygiene measures inside and outside the home, which allow them to prevent risks and complications. In the health of themselves and their families.