Plano de ação para redução da obesidade em pacientes com Doenças Crônicas na Unidade Básica de Saúde "Gado Bravo" do Município de São Sebastião em Alagoas

Abstract

Obesity is and epidemic in the modern world and Brazil is not out of this problem. With the changes that have occurred in recent decades in the habits of life of the population, the country face difficulties with the weight gain in the population. Consequently is growing the number of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD), especially cardiovascular order, responsible for the higher rate of morbidity and mortality in the world besides the higher cost of social and economic assistance they require. Recently a survey revealed that almost half of the brazilian population is overweight and obesity is the 20% of adults in the country. Taking into account that the simultaneity of cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, hypertension and diabetic patients increases the likelihood of occurrence of cardiovascular events, that your time are the leading cause of deaths in the community of wild cattle, we proposed make an intervention project for reduction of obesity in patients with these diseases waiting decrease the number of deaths by these causes. To achieve this goal, we conducted a survey of the health situation in the area of coverage of the team by the method of Quick Estimates, with active participation of team members and the community itself. A review of literature on the topic in question, which included health descriptors like “obesity”, “risk factors” and “abdominal Obesity” in sites such as SciELO, portal of the Ministry of health, the site Municipal Government and Brazilian societies publications Cardiology and Endocrinology who helped in the drafting of the action plan once that corroborate the importance of intervening on the topic. The contingency plan will follow the Situational strategic planning method (PES) which presents the following steps: problem identification, prioritization of issues, selection of priority problem, characterization of the problem, description of problem, explanation of the problem, identification of us critics, drawing operations, identification of critical resources, analysis of the feasibility of the plan and operating plan. It is concluded that obesity is a health problem of complex etiology and with a high prevalence, and morbidity and mortality in the current world, the prospect of success in your prevention requires knowledge of health professionals and the community about your multifactorial etiology as well as about the risks to the health and importance of adopting healthy habits for your prevention and control.