Imagens e concepções de adolescentes moradores de zonas rurais sobre saúde

Abstract

The objective of this study was to describe health-related images and concepts among adolescents living in rural areas of Brazil, using photography. This was a qualitative community-based participatory study that used the photovoice method for data collection with groups of teenagers. Over a four-month period, 26 participants identified health problems in the rural community, took photographs, and reflected critically on the local reality. The adolescents presented pictures and stories that they organized into research themes and categories, representing inadequate living conditions for appropriate socioeconomic and cultural development and limiting the opportunities for change in this community. The study proved to be a positive health education strategy, involving young people in the community's health and maximizing the voice of teenagers as protagonists in their own history.

Adolescent health promotion based on community-centered arts education

“…The activities selected for implementation of the goals (photography, dance-elongation, drawing and graffiti) have proved to be effective resources for the recovery of adolescents' protagonistic status and for stimulating critical reflections on health promotion, respectively, in the use of the "photo-voice" strategy (19) , the Practical Program of Educational Dance (PPDE) (5) and drawing/expression (20) .…”