Projeto de intervenção no enfrentamento do sobrepeso e obesidade em crianças atendidas pela equipe verde do centro de saúde palmeiras, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

Abstract

The municipality of Belo Horizonte currently has 2,512,070 inhabitants estimate Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics for 2019. Neighborhood Palmeiras is located in the Western Region of the city of Belo Horizonte and has 78 thousand inhabitants. The main health problems of the Green Team in the coverage area are arterial hypertension, diabetes, mental suffering and obesity and child overweight, the latter being prioritized for the intervention plan, which aimed to develop an action plan with intervention strategies in improving eating habits and physical exercise in children aged 5 to 9 years who are overweight or obese. To elaborate this work, the Situational Strategic Planning / Rapid Estimation method was applied, to determine the priority problem, the critical nodes and the actions of the area covered by the team. The action plan was elaborated through the analysis of the needs and precariousness of the specific problems for the theme, such as the lack of knowledge about healthy eating and physical exercise. The following critical nodes related to childhood obesity were identified: inadequate eating habits; sedentary life of overweight and obese children; lack of parental guidance. The proposal of this plan aims at strategies that reduce the number of overweight children in the area covered by the team and that serves as a suggestion for intervention in other places with educational activities for informative and preventive purposes, aiming at the active participation of the community, transmitting knowledge and building good life habits