Atividade física como fator de prevenção e controle da hipertensão arterial: a experiência da Unidade Saúde da Família Dr. Ulisses Ferreira

Abstract

Primary Care Family Health Strategy (FHS) is a key to the consolidation of the reorientation for a new model of health care in Brazil. Thus, the FHS should welcome and establish links with service users, and provide solutions for problems and health needs presented by the community. FHS Dr. Ulisses Ferreira, located in Visconde do Rio Branco - MG, tried to know the main problems of the population from its territory of operation. In 2009, it was performed a situational analysis of the territory identifying as a common problem in the community, the increased cardiac risk with a focus on systemic blood pressure (hypertension). This study reports the experience of the FHS unity in the implementation of physical activity as a contributing factor to the prevention and control of hypertension. Also as part of the study, we reviewed the scientific and technical literature in electronic databases LILACS, SciELO and Virtual Health Library of the Health Ministry in order to base the justification of the work and establish the relationship between the existing literature and the reality studied. It was observed that the implementation of physical activity has brought benefits to the participants, such as better quality of life and adherence to treatment, closer ties between users and staff, and maintaining of values of pressure measurements at desirable levels.