Dzedzedze em duas bocas : estudo sobre o papel da media na construção das percepções e práticas sociais sobre a malária

Abstract

The role of media regarding diseases has been recognised in Mozambican; especially malaria. Rádio Moçambique (RM) has been producing and radio broadcasting program that sensitize individuals not to adopt behaviours considered risk regarding malaria. This monograph aims to study the role of media regarding practices and social perceptions of the main objective is to understand how influences people’s perceptions of Muelé, Inhambane city. The study identified people’s practices and social perceptions regarding malaria at Muelé, the results were compared with the contents of the program of malaria of RM. The argument is that RM program regarding malaria does not influence people’s practices and their perceptions about the disease because the program does not take into account the social context where it is spread. The context of RM program reproduce Government and NGO’s speech and actions and do not determine how people understand, prevent and treat malaria. Hipotetic-Dedutive method was used to formulate the research problem. The results showed that the Radio Mozambique malaria contents program don’t influence the social perception and practices about malaria because the contents put out the social aspects of Muelé people’s, such as habits, belief. The study was based on the theory of social construction of the reality of Berger & Luckman (1979). To collect data we used interviews and direct observation.