Promoção da saúde no Programa de Saúde da Família: uma proposta de intervenção

Abstract

Health has a considerable contribution to the quality of life of individuals and of a population. All the same, it is known that many social components of a life with quality are essential to achieve a high standard of health. Therefore, Health Promotion, one of the basic pillars of Family Health Program, is essential to hence living standards of a community, since it seeks to provide information and means for individuals and population to take action over theirs health determinants. Since presently there are almost none health promotion actions in Family Health Program Alcino Lázaro, this paper aims to develop an interventional plan that helps creating health promotion activities and illness prevention in Family Health Program Alcino Lázaro. For its development, a literature narrative review of scientific articles about the theme was carried out. A research on Ministério da Saúde documents, on journals indexed on the Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS) and on the Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO) data base was also made to the elaboration of this paper. To conceive the intervention project the steps of the Strategic Situational Planning were followed. From this project, it is expected to increase public awareness about the importance of Health Promotion, and with the actions proposed, it is expected an increase on health standards and quality of life of the population.