Photovoice and the Eco-Bio-Social approach with students: an Innovative strategy for Aedes aegypti control and prevention

Abstract

Photovoice employs photography as a dialogue element that transcends the understanding of an image. This study consolidates knowledge and innovative action in mobilizing students to control and prevent the Aedes aegypti vector. This vector's control is of global interest, and the Eco-Bio-Social approach points out sustainable and effective strategies in this regard. We describe the experience of schoolchildren and adolescent students with Photovoice based on discussions about the photographs produced. The collected data were analyzed and processed by the IRaMuTeQ software, and the outcomes were compiled and integrated by thematic construction from the students' narratives. We identified two central cores in the narratives: mosquitoes and water. Photovoice awakened the participants' critical environmental management perspective and was provenly an adequate tool to drive proactivity and promote social and community responsibility, gathering scientific knowledge and social commitment.