O Cartão Nacional de Saúde e os benefícios no Programa Saúde na Escola, Município de Entre Folhas Minas Gerais

Abstract

The Cartão Nacional de Saúde (CNS) or National Health Card has aclose relationship with the assessment of students held at the Programa Saúde na Escola (PSE) or School Health Program, being necessary for validation of their actions.There is high prevalence of assessed students who lack the CNS, which causes various program actionsbecome invalid, because they lack the essential information to feed the system.OBJECTIVE: Increase the number of students served in PSE belonging to the schoolsregistered in the city of Entre Folhas/ Minas Gerais, demonstrating the importance andbenefits of owning the CNS in PSE for both the municipality as those covered children. METHODS: This is an intervention project, based on the Strategic Planning Situcional. Aliterature review was performed within the last 10 years, in the databases Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS), Nursing Database (BDENF) editions of the Ministry of Health and others. RESULTS: From the studyit was possible to identify the factors that influenced the non-realization of actions of the program due to the absence of CNS, being proposed strategic actions to overcome the problem situation found in order to carry out the expansion of the number of students registered in the Sistema Único de Sáude (SUS) or National Health System, requesting parents and / or guardians to send proper documentation for registration and checking of cards. CONCLUSION: It is expected that with this study can increase the sharing of information to employees about the need to use the identification number of the students because their absence came to undermine the integration of data from the previous period. It was noted that through the actions of creating and updating the CNS, it became possible to ensure the effective participation of all students in the actions, and create accountability and citizenship in order to ensure compliance not only in PSE, but in all and any sphere nationwide. So, it is clear the obligation of the preparation of the health sector, considering how primary duty awareness of the need to possess the CNS and its use through the development of programs. In the other hand, it will allow the recognition of the user on the system linking the information to the formation of an electronic medical record covering all SUS user data generating a new habit in relation to the care of primary care and their health programs.