Enfrentamento do mau controle da hipertensão pelos hipertensos na Unidade Básica de Saúde Planalto de Montes Claros Minas Gerais

Abstract

Hypertension is a chronic disease with high prevalence in Primary Health Care, of great importance because of its potential of resulting in complications and its good coping capability by an organized health system. The aim of this study is to define, based on the literature and in the information gathered in the community, what actions can be implemented in Primary Health Care to counter the poor control of hypertension by hypertensive patients in the Planalto Basic Health Unit from Montes Claros Minas Gerais. This paper describes the process of creating an intervention project in the community area served by the Family Health Strategy Team Planalto I from Montes Claros, Minas Gerais. Here are presented the data collection steps, the elaboration of the situation diagnosis, the processing of the identified problems, the election of priorities for coping and the development of an intervention project. The critical nodes and the critical resources were identified, and the operational design of the project was prepared. The feasibility analysis was made and the operating plan of the intervention project was built. With this paper it became clear that much can be improved in the management of hypertension and other chronic conditions of high prevalence that are still neglected in Primary Care.