Organização do processo de trabalho na atenção ao diabético em Estratégia Saúde da Família

Abstract

Brazil has been facing a big incidence and prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus and its chronic complications. The ageing society, the rising urbanization and the adoption of unhealthy lifestyles are main factors that explain the increase of diabetes prevalence. The Estratégia Saúde da Família plays a fundamental role in promoting health and prevention of diseases and its complications. Through a situational diagnosis it was showed that actions regarding monitoring people with Diabetes Mellitus are deployed incipiently in the Estratégia Saúde da Família. The purpose of this work consists in proposing a Action Plan to organize the working process of ESF Carmelo 2 with focus on a proper monitoring for diabetics, in Montes Claros/MG. The methodology applied was the Situational Strategic Planning (PES) and a bibliographical research of official documents of the Secretaria Estadual de Saúde de Minas Gerais e do Ministério da Saúde in indexed journals of the Virtual Library of Health (BVS) from the data base of Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO). It is believed that the proper monitoring for people with diabetes will allow the development of a care plan that the diabetics and they family actively engage, being protagonists in the process of changing and impacting positively the quality of life, reducing the morbimortality caused by this disease in the territory of study.