Acompanhamento à puérpera e ao recém-nascido por meio de protocolo

Abstract

Home visit in primary care has been established through the implementation of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and it represents the main working tool of Community Health Agents (CHA) who perform, at least, a monthly visit to each family residing in its working area, varying the amount of visits per household depending on the health of its inhabitants and the existence of children and pregnant women, which receive special attention as they compose priority groups. From the situational analysis conducted by Equipe Azul of the Unidade Básica de Saúde de Venda Nova problems were identified more relevant in the community and giving priority to monitoring the postpartum and newborn through systematic home visits. The aim of this study was to develop a protocol for home visits to postpartum women and their newborns. To give theoretical basement to the protocol were reviewed publications in the scientific literature on the subject. It is expected that the development of the protocol favors the health team UBS Centro de Saúde Venda, as the record of the mothers and newborns, through active search, making the record more confident about the real situation of this clientele.