Intervenção em complicações da hipertensão arterial: PSF Rufino Furtado de Meneses, Veríssimo, MG

Abstract

Being a chronic disease characterized by a sustained increase in blood pressure, systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) is associated with morbidity and mortality rates and is a serious public health problem that affects millions of people worldwide. In the municipality of Verissimo, MG, SAH is a challenging issue for primary health care, considering it is a disease with severe and lethal complications if not treated early and adequately. Thus, this study aims to develop an intervention project that would contribute to reducing the incidence of hypertension and its complications in users assisted by PSF Rufino Furtado de Meneses in the municipality of Verissimo / MG. It was used as a method for identifying and prioritizing, description and explanation of the problem selected, identifying critical nodes of the methodology of Strategic Planning Situational-PES (CAMPOS, 2010). To carry out this intervention project was still using a bibliographical research based on electronic data of the Virtual Health Library, Virtual UFMG Library, Ministry of Health publications and has developed a set of health education actions by claiming that they serve to improve the level of knowledge of the population about the HBP, offering tools to users and their families so they can have a longer life and better quality. Once intervened in the group, it is expected to be able to reduce the incidence of new hypertension diagnoses in the area covered by the health unit. Still, it aims that this study promotes the health team experience and that this initiative be maintained over the medium and long term, beyond the period for the search.