Falta de autocuidado com a saúde dos profissionais agentes comunitários de saúde

Abstract

The Palmital neighborhood is located in the municipality of Santa Luzia and has four Family Health Strategy teams, one of which is Blue. Through the rapid estimation method, we verified that the main problem faced by the Blue team was the ‘’lack of self-care by the professional Community Health Agents (ACS)”. Thus, in the present study, we developed an intervention project to improve the self-care in health of the ACS professionals. The bibliographic review in databases supported the elaboration of the intervention project. Subsequently, we used the Situational Strategic Planning to carry out the quick estimation method of the observed problems. The elaborated project contains description and explanation of the problem, selection of critical nodes, design of operations on a critical node. Thus, we created two projects “More Health” and “ACS on the move” to solve the indicated problem. The main strategic actions were focused on holding meetings with health and management teams to explain, discuss and inform about the relevance of self-care for the ACS. We realized that the practice of self-care with health can be a strategy to guarantee the well-being of workers and intensify motivation, productivity and satisfaction in the work environment. In the case of the Basic Health Unit Celso Diana, the absence of this practice interferes with the ACS professionals ability to work.