O controle da hipertensão arterial sistêmica na Estratégia de Saúde da Família Maracanã IV

Abstract

The Systemic Hypertension is a clinical condition of high prevalence and low control rates. It is considered one of the major modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, which have become the leading cause of death in our country and responsible for high frequency of hospitalizations, causing high costs. The health team elected to lack of control of Hypertension as a priority issue in the area covered by sub had observed a diagnosis of this condition, the lack of adequate monitoring of patients and the importance of this problem for public health. This study aimed to propose an action plan for the control of blood pressure of hypertensive patients the coverage area of the Health Strategy Family IV Maracanã, in the city of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais. First, there was literature in the SciELO database and virtual library NESCON, manuals, guidelines, textbooks from the library descriptors: hypertension, primary health care and intervention. Believing in the potential of Primary Health Care, the action plan following the methodology of Strategic Situational Planning in order to help the team improve its performance with users. This will be possible through the implementation of actions such as early diagnosis and registering hypertensive, keep well informed on the subject population, stratify the cardiovascular risk of all users diagnosed as hypertensive and organize the service to better serve hypertensive.