Estratégias para aumentar a adesão ao tratamento anti-hipertensivo em uma unidade básica de saúde de Matriz de Camaragibe - AL

Abstract

Hypertension is a chronic disease that often associates up to functional and / or structural changes to target organs and metabolic changes. The lack of adherence to treatment of hypertension results in blood pressure control failure, increased complications and mortality. The objective of this study was to increase assistance to hypertensive ascribed the Basic Health Unit José Medeiros, by increasing adherence to antihypertensive treatment. This is a literature survey in the Virtual Library in health, in the databases LILACS, MEDLINE and SciELO, using the keywords: Hypertension, Patient compliance and Primary Health Care. Thus, an intervention proposal was to be built performed by means of an operating plan with strategies to fight the problem, and monitoring of this plan. It is expected that the population know better hypertension and adherence to treatment of this disease increases, thus reducing morbidity and mortality due mainly to cardiovascular diseases.