Medidas preventivas para novos casos de hipertensão arterial sistêmica na ESF Santa Cruz: uma proposta de intervenção

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop an action plan to motivate the people in the Santa Cruz Family Health Strategy (FHS) to adopt healthy lifestyle habits in order to improve the quality of life of hypertensive patients and prevent new cases. In this study we selected the following critical node: lack of information about the importance of healthy lifestyle habits; inappropriate eating habits and low adherence to physical activity practices. Based on these critical nodes were proposed the following actions to oppose: project implementation to keep the population more informed about the decisive role of prevention, increase the number of users with healthy diet and increase the number of physical active people. It is believed that the proposed action plan is able to bring knowledge and information about the disease and the importance of prevention, besides encouraging people to adopt healthy lifestyle habits.