Mortalidade por doenças cardiovasculares em Barbacena - Minas Gerais: um plano de intervenção

Abstract

In the situational diagnosis of the area covered by the Family Health Strategy Correia de Almeida observed high mortality from cardiovascular disease. Thus, this study aimed to develop a contingency plan for better management of patients with cardiovascular disease the Health Strategy Correia de Almeida family. The methodology was performed in two stages: first, there was the situational diagnosis of the coverage area to identify community health problems and defining the priority problem to be studied and identified the following critical nodes: low population Knowledge level on hypertension; unhealthy living habits of the population; failure to approach the patients with high blood pressure and lack of training of health professionals in the Family Health Strategy; in the second stage was held on literature in the Virtual Health Library with the following keywords:. hypertension, complications and Primary Health Care Based on critical nodes have been proposed the following coping actions: creation of projects "learn more" to increase the level of informing the general public about hypertension; "Stir up" to encourage the modification of eating habits and physical activity; "Better care" to ensure all patients a more qualified service and; "More care" to empower and train professionals in the Family Health Strategy for the care of hypertensive patients. It is expected, therefore, that with the intervention plan's implementation the care of hypertensive patients is of higher quality.