Perfil da produtividade dos nutricionistas dos Núcleos de Apoio a Saúde da Família no período de 2009 a 2011: uma ferramenta para gestão das ações em saúde no município de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

In primary care, measures to control and prevent nutritional deficiencies, and overweight and obesity should be planned from the local diagnosis, based on the characterization of the epidemiological profile of the community and residential spaces, with that level of attention to strategic effectiveness of these actions. One of the strategies adopted by the Ministry of Health to strengthen the shares of primary care was the creation of Centers of Support for Family Health (NASF), which aims to broaden the scope of the shares at this level of attention, and consequently increase its solvability. The NASF is constituted as a multidisciplinary team, comprised of professionals from various fields of knowledge, among these the nutritionist. The insertion of this team nutritionist possible that stocks of food and nutrition occur effectively in primary care. In Belo Horizonte, the insertion of the teams nutritionist NASF occurred in different social contexts and its principal activities to provide direct services to the population at basic health Unit are developed in partnership with the family health teams as a tool support matrix. The present study examined the productivity of nutritionists NASF of Belo Horizonte in the years 2009 to 2011, in order to generate data that will contribute to the strengthening of the actions of a trader within the AB.