A imunização contra influenza em idosos, na área de abrangência do PSF Cândido Bernardes

Abstract

The aged population has found some difficulties in keeping a quality of satisfactory life and condizente with its physiological alterations, aiming at to keep the trivial activities without alterations. It is more vulnerable in acquiring a disease, especially respiratory diseases, which are the cause of many hospitalizations, excessive spending with health services and even many deaths in this age group. To promote one better prevention and promotion of the aged health of the o Health department it implanted, since 1999, the campaign against influenza for all the aged ones above of 60 years, that happen in the month of April of each year. This campaign aims at to vacinar, at least, 80% of the aged population with intention to eradicate its problems of health that are immunopreventable with the vaccine. However, some older people do not adhere to the vaccination. Thus, this study aimed to identify the amount of elderly people aged 60 years the area covered by the Family Health Program Cândido Bernardes, in the municipality of Monte Belo, which were not immunized with influenza vaccine in the campaign for the elderly in the period 2009 to 2011 and rise in the national literature the reasons why older people do not adhere to the influenza vaccine. Initially, the amount rose elderly vaccinated against influenza by the Family Health Team Cândido Bernardes from the existing record in the drive through the National Immunization Program. Then, there was literature in BDENF, with the descriptors: the elderly, vaccination and influenza. The results showed that the Family Health Team Cândido Bernardes, in the years 2009 to 2011, found limited by the elderly to adhere to vaccination. Among the factors limiting this membership are the lack of information about the reactions of the vaccine; insistence on the myth that to get the vaccine, the senior gets the disease, the lack of information about the importance of vaccination, lack of accessibility to immunization activities in the area of PSF coverage, low education and income, inadequate approach to immunization by health professionals. These findings have found support in the literature studied. However, as the difficulties encountered by the team, some ideas were raised by the team to resolve problems and make work efficient.