Intervenção educativa para modificação dos fatores de risco da hipertensão arterial pela ESF malhada da onça, no município de São Sebastião/AL.

Abstract

San Sebastian is a municipality located in the southern state of Alagoas. Its population is 33,826 inhabitants, its area is 315 km² (105.22 h / km²) and is located 136 km from Maceio, capital of Alagoras. The main problem identified by the health team in the city was the difficulty of monitoring patients with chronic diseases - hypertension. By doing the analysis of the health of users of the coverage area were detected as major causes of mortality: the increase in cardiovascular disease as well as a significant increase in incidence rates of patients with hypertension. Systemic hypertension (HBP) is a serious health problem in our region, not only by the high prevalence of the adult population as well as by the sharp portion of undiagnosed hypertension, or not properly treated, or the high dropout rate to treatment . This CBT aims to develop a educational intervention project to promote the reduction of the incidence of hypertension in the city of San Sebastian / AL. To develop the Intervention Plan we used the Strategic Planning Method Situational - PES and was also performed narrative literature search with search material Ministry of Health documents, journals indexed in the Virtual Library in Health (BVS). With this work we can assess the situation of hypertension in the unit area covered by Basic Health Malhada da Onca the city San Sebastian in Alagoas, getting the numbers of cases of the respective disease. Through this diagnosis we can understand the epidemiological situation and propose promotion, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of all cases in the community.