Acompanhamento de pacientes hipertensos na Atenção Básica: desafio para a equipe de saúde

Abstract

This study aimed, through an intervention project carried out during the course of specialization in Family Health Strategy, improve the care provided to hypertensive patients team of 5 Jaqueline Basic Health Unit 1 - Annex Zilah. For being such a incident / prevalent disease both in the world and in Brazil, it is considered of fundamental importance that the family health team knows how to lead the care of people with this injury. This process includes: welcome them, provide quality care, reduce mortality, prevent. When performing a situational analysis of this team, it was realized that it could not perform its duties in relation to hypertension, either for lack of time, planning, large acute demand, lack of adequate number of professionals, among others. Thus, there was the ntervention project, resulting in strategies that aim to provide better care for these patients, preventing diseases and improving the quality of life for them.For its foundation, added to the literature review on the subject beingresearched in LILAC'S databases. BIREME and Google Scholar the following key words: Hypertension, Primary Care Intervention Project. It was selected to study the current articles that most were related to the theme primary care. In addition, we used protocols and guidelines on the subject Hypertension