Educação sanitária frente ao aumento da vigilância sanitária passiva.

This study was carried out with the aim of expanding passive surveillance to the Institute of Agricultural Defense of Rio Grande do Norte through Education in Animal Health Defense of students of the 1st year of the Technical Course in Agriculture of the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte - Campus Apodi, between the months of October and December 2019, totaling 104 students. Initially, a structured questionnaire was applied in order to measure the level of knowledge on the subject. In a second moment, lectures and training courses were carried out on the main Animal Health Programs carried out by the state defense agency. Finally, the same questionnaire was applied for evaluation purposes. Regarding the knowledge about the Institute of Agricultural Defense and Inspection of Rio Grande do Norte, it was observed that only 9.6% of the students had knowledge about the agency, but 54.8% knew of its role. On the other hand, it was noticed that after the lecture, 93.9% said they knew about the organ, and 88.8% knew about its performance. Only 16.3% of the students were aware of the information about the National Herbivore Rabies Control Program at the first meeting, and only 42.3% mastered the main form of rabies transmission in herbivores. After lectures, 86.7% of learning on the subject was obtained, with 88.8% of knowledge about the ways in which the disease is transmitted. Therefore, an efficient, comprehensive and continuous animal health education program on Animal Health Defense is necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]