Proposta de enfrentamento do tabagismo pela Estratégia de Saúde da Família no bairro Vila Anália, Montes Claros MG

Abstract

Montes Claros is the main city in the north of Minas Gerais with 361.915 inhabitants in a total area of 3.568,94 km², located to 418 km of Belo Horizonte. The team of Strategy of Health of neighborhood Vila Anália's FamilyESF VA exists since 1999 in this municipal district, being responsible for 1088 registered families, totaling 4210 inhabitants. The appealing population demand with relationship to the support for the abstention of the habit of smoking, before countless frustrated attempts, he/she became a curious and attractive factor for study and intervention, sees the unanimity of the discomfort and the user's dissatisfaction for the presence of the habit in spite of the countless effective social problems. Second IBGE (2008), 17,5% of the Brazilian population with fifteen years or more makes tobacco use. With base in these data, he/she is considered that in the territory of inclusion of ESF Vila Anália 507 tabagistas exist with age same or superior to 15 years. In that way, the approach of the habit of smoking is justified for configuring as potential risk to the health, being made priority in a population whose principal death cause is the cardiovascular diseases, still associated, the full dissatisfaction of the chronic users' of the tobacco enormous majority. The objective of the work is to propose an intervention plan to be applied in the area of performance of ESF Vila Anália, seeking reduction of the tabagismo with improvement of the sobrevida and quality of life of the local population.