Baixas taxas de adesão ao tratamento de hipertensos em Unidade de Saúde na Zona Rural do Município de Estrela de Alagoas – AL

Abstract

Systemic hypertension (SH) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developed and developing countries. Being poor adherence or non-adherence to antihypertensive drug treatment a public health problem and a major obstacle to the successful treatment of high blood pressure, this work presents a proposal of intervention for Health 1 Team family - Impoeiras , rural area of the municipality Estrela de Alagoas, Al, in order to intervene on the large number of patients with blood pressure uncontrolled residing in the territory. For this we used the Situational Strategic Planning, collected data on the reality of the city and the territory by developing a list of issues of which the most important was prioritized. From there, they were then defined the causes of this problem present in the territory and proposed action strategies that encourage the actors involved (family, population, professionals and managers) towards the improvement of health conditions.