Importância da vacinação contra influenza: plano de ação para o PSF São Miguel Arcanjo

Abstract

The number of elderly in the World and in Brazil has been growing linearly in recent decades due to a number of factors ranging from technological advances in health, and particularly in relation to a larger body care and preventive behavior. In this new scenario, is public health,which seeks through surveys and implement public policies to minimize the impact of age on health through campaigns targeted at these children and primarily through immunization. The elderly have a facility to have respiratory diseases ranging from bronchitis to pneumonia, andin this sense the Influenza Virus is one of the main factors related to influenza and pneumonia, respectively where the second is responsible for bringing the hospitalizations and even death . This finding motivated this study, which aimed to recognize the importance of awareness as atool that takes the elderly to join the campaign, the results demonstrate that the PSF São Miguel Arcanjo of Ribeirão das Neves / MG has adequate coverage of immunization, with 81,10%, however, there was a significant reduction compared to 2012/2013, around 5%, which suggests the need to restructure the process of awareness so that in 2014 there is a change in this curve and start a process of growth.