Projeto de intervenção para conscientização e mudança de hábitos de vida dos pacientes hipertensos e pré-hipertensos, com idade superior a 50 anos, no distrito de São José do Triunfo

Abstract

Hypertension is a major public health problem in Brazil, since the no control of blood pressure provides the development of other cardiovascular diseases which in turn increase mortality rates especially in relation to the elderly and low social class. The treatment can be performed on two pillars, one using medication to control nonpharmacological or non-pharmacological blood pressure and another named that operates primarily on what drives the maintenance of blood pressure levels at high rates and that has as main characteristic the change of life by patients themselves. During the course of Specialization in Primary Care of the Family was establishedthat the district of Sao José do Triunfo, Viçosa ( MG ), the elderly patients did not have any knowledge on the non-medication treatment , and thus kept old habits of life they prevented the effective treatment of hypertension . To change the local reality was proposed an intervention plan according to which the focus of treatment was not the disease but the patient, encouraging them to adopt healthy practices inthe institution of several projects for the same purpose.