Challenges and possibilities for health management in the perspective of syphilis prevention and treatment

Resumen

To present the challenges and possibilities of prevention and treatment of syphilis for public health management, identified from studies surveyed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL). The work is an integrative literature review, since it is constituted by analyzing and synthesizing the information provided by all studies published in the database, from 1995 to 2021. It is considered that health education in the case of STIs and, specifically in the context of syphilis, in schools, should prioritize actions with informative, formative, and, especially, understanding about aspects of affective-emotional life involving youth and adulthood. Moreover, the expansion of professional training to be able to realize that STIs have several social, economic, and cultural determinants, reflecting the need to understand the health-disease processes in their configuration in society. About syphilis, it is particularly important, given the stigmas associated with sex life. Health surveillance has also emerged as an essential strategy for monitoring the pathology and guiding decision-making. Public health management must be well structured and organized to be able to develop health surveillance, health education and health education actions in primary, care to act effectively on these issues, considering the locoregional specificities.