Avaliação do sistema de informação do câncer do colo de útero no município de Araxá

Abstract

Cancer of the cervix is the most common malignancy of the female genital tract in Brazil and worldwide is the fourth cause. It is a disease of slow and silent, but is prevented completely curable if treated early. Given the epidemiological aspect to this disease occupies this study aims to evaluate the quality of registration Information System Cervical Cancer in the municipality of the town. It is a descriptive, exploratory, based on a literature search of published studies, conducted through the portals of the Virtual Health Library, Virtual Library CEABSF, using the key words: Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, Information Systems. The databases were considered LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences), SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library on Line) and Medline (International Literature on Health Sciences), and selected articles that addressed issues related to the goal research. The test sample was pre-determined, since the sample was not at the municipal level but a particular sector that performs the service of secondary public network of the city. The data collected from the Basic Health Unit represent a small sample of tests done in the city, since no data are computed in the Information System of the cervix of the municipality. The data were collected in April 2011, by hand, by recording the results of cytology, colposcopy, biopsy and cauterization performed from January to December 2010 in Unity. There is an information system in the Basic Health of the city, which makes the compilation and analysis of data collected. The active search and screening of women for gynecologic exams are present actions in the daily lives of health professionals of this unit, it ensures regular attendance to gynecologists and gynecological examinations within the period recommended by the Ministry of Health in 2006. In the city of Araxá, the SISCOLO is not fed by the municipality, due to wrong flow that occurs at the regional level, ie, laboratories digital service providers the database, but transferring that data to regional health found in Uberaba . The CRS (Regional Health Management) after consolidation of this data sends reports to the municipalities for carrying out active surveillance and monitoring of women with abnormal results of cytology. It is concluded that computerization is needed and more solid data base for clearer and more objective in order to develop educational work at the data collected. We point out that prevention depends not only on technical aspects but also the actions of health education, which should guide the practice of professionals to develop prevention and early detection of cervical cancer.