Alta prevalência de hipertensão arterial - Programa Saúde da Família Fazenda Castro, em Ribeirão das Neves, Minas Gerais

Abstract

“Ribeirão das Neves” is a city located 32 km from the capital of the State of “Minas Gerais” (MG). It is part of the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, occupying 4.1% of this area. It has an estimated population of 322,659 inhabitants. In relation to health care, there are 76 units of the Unified Health System, on three macro-regional: “Justinópolis”, “Centro” and “Veneza”. The Family Health Team “Fazenda Castro”, “Metropolitano” neighborhood, area II of “Veneza”, has 1154 families registered and a total of 4563 people. In this population, 383 people are hypertensive. Hypertension is an important cause of cardiovascular diseases and if untreated accelerates the development of heart failure, heart disease, angina, acute myocardial infarction, bleeding and thrombotic strokes and kidney failure. Due to the high percentage of patients with this diagnosis in our area, it was proposed an intervention project for improvement of care and quality of life of this population. This work presents a diagnosis of the situation of community health, and the characterization of hypertension as a priority problem. The methodology was developed using the Situational Strategic Planning. Also, this work presents a literature review on the Family Health Strategy, hypertension, and risk factors/lifestyle. This intervention are presented with four actions to lead with four priority problems: (1) inadequate habits and lifestyle; (2) low level of information community about hypertension; (3) inadequate health services and structure (4) inadequate worker process health team for attention to people with hypertension.