Plano de ação para enfrentamento do problema alta prevalência de sobrepeso e obesidade em crianças e adolescentes na área de abrangência daUnidade Básica de Saúde Heliópolis

Abstract

Studies shows that infant obesity is a growing and universal disease, assuming an epidemiological feature as a public health problem in modern society. In this way, the high prevalence of children and teenagers with overweight and obesity was selected as the object of this study, through a situational diagnosis on Heliopolis Health Center area and the contextualization of Belo Horizonte city. This problem was chosen because children obesity has consequences to people´s health, correlated with orthopedic disorders, psychological disturbs and the incidence of chronic non transmitted diseases. Therefore the aim of this work was to propose an intervention plan to implement actions that could promote changes on children and teenagers lifestyles on Heliopolis Health Basic Unit area in order to decrease the cases of overweight and obesity among this age range. It was used the Situational Strategic Planning fundaments for both Situational diagnosis and Action plan constructions. The literature review was made through researches on Health Virtual Library´s data base and its information sources LILACS, SciELO and MEDLINE. It was considered studies from the last ten years. As an intervention plan a few strategic operations will be accomplished in order to face critical knots of the selected problem. Hence, the Action Plan intends to contribute to collective health, enhancing the encouragement and access to education about the approached issue, as well as the systemized practice of physical activities and healthy eating in a given territory