Desnutrição infantil em crianças menores de cinco anos na Unidade Básica de Saúde Dom Pedro I em Minador do Negrão - Alagoas

Abstract

Malnutrition is both a medical and social problem affecting a part of the world's population, especially children. The Basic Health Unit Dom Pedro I, serves a population of 2461 people and 692 families, of which 127 are children under five years of age, of which 52 are malnourished. Therefore, the objective of this study is to reduce the high incidence of child malnutrition in children under five years of age in the community of the Dom Pedro I Basic Health Unit in the municipality of Minador do Negrão. In order to carry out this work, we divided into three interconnected moments: accomplishment of the situational diagnosis, review of the literature on the subject and elaboration of the intervention project. This proposal refers to the priority problem "high index of children with malnutrition", for which a description, explanation and selection of their critical nodes is registered, according to the methodology of Simplified Strategic Planning. Our main problem is the high index of children with malnutrition, so the critical nodes were identified as follows: lack of parents' education about the nutritional value of food; Intestinal parasitism; Poor feeding habits (inadequate breastfeeding). With the operational plan developed in this work is expected to attack directly the critical sociocultural and health nodes that are the personalized obstacles of the community in question and thereby reduce the malnutrition of our child community.