Aumento na adesão das mulheres ao exame de prevenção do câncer de colo uterino no período de junho de 2010 a maio de 2011: relato de experiência da Equipe de Saúde da Família Santa Luzia do município de Sete Lagoas - Minas Gerais

Abstract

Cervical cancer is the third most common among women, with approximately 500 thousand new cases per year in the world. It is silent disease and slow development. Preventives examination is the main and most comprehensive method for tracking cervical cancer. Sete Lagoas' city set a target for the Saúde em Casa's Program for the year 2010 reaching 33% coverage for collecting cytological examination in women 25-59 years old, but did not achieve this goal. Thus, this work shows the experience of the Equipe Saúde da Família Santa Luzia in Sete Lagoas' city in organizing their work process in the period June 2010 to May 2011, which resulted in increased adherence of th womens population under their health responsibility to take prevention of cervical cancer in one year and to propose its expansion to other teams in the city. Therefore, the team developed actions such as meeting with staff, registration of women, individual invitations to the exam schedule flexible operating groups specific to women, humanized and individualized service, use of rotary binder and record book. These actions contributed to increase the membership of women to take prevention and promoted the accomplishment of 526 preventive examinations in a year, coverage of 66% of women 25-59 years. Therefore, this work shows that it is possible to increase the membership of women to take prevention, since there is involvement of the workforce in the early identification of women generating an increased bond with the user team.