Participation in public health programs from the community: the TopaDengue case

Authors

  • Cristhian Parra
  • Rodrigo Rojas
  • Ginno Agostini Espinoza
  • Josefina Coloma

Keywords:

Participatory process, public policies, health

Abstract

TopaDengue is a project that combines community participation and ICTs, within a framework of a controlled experimental design with the aim of designing and evaluating a community program of Aedes Aegypti control. The final goal is to be able to influence the development of public health policies based on the information produced by the community itself, appropriately shared through new technologies. In this article, we offer an introduction to this experience, its historical origins and preliminary results.

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Author Biographies

Cristhian Parra

He is a Computer Engineer, Doctor in Computer Science and Telecommunications. Professor and Senior Researcher of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology of the Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Paraguay. He is the Design and Development Director of AppCivist, and an External Advisor of the Anti-Corruption Department of the Ministry of Finance of Paraguay. He works with Social Computing and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), using approaches and methodologies of User-Centered Design, Participatory Design, and Research from the Action

Rodrigo Rojas

He is a Social Psychologist and Activist. He works on several research projects in Paraguay, designing and coordinating social research components.

Ginno Agostini Espinoza

He studies Political Science at the School of Social and Political Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay. He is a junior researcher of the TopaDengue Project.

Josefina Coloma

She is a Biologist, PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. She is a researcher at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Sciences Institute, at Berkeley. She directs several international projects on dengue and other arboviruses, developing and implementing community mosquito control programs in Latin America.

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Published

2019-07-01

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 18 (2019): V!18 Parti.cipate+Col.laborate Vol. 2

Section

Tapete