Serviços de rastreamento do câncer de colo uterino na atenção básica à saúde

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Ana Carolina Arantes Coutinho
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/0013000006mm2
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5262
• topic: Atenção primária à saúde; Avaliação de serviço de saúde; Exame colpocitológico; Câncer de colo do útero; Primary health care; Health evaluation; Women's health; Papanicolaou test; Uterine cervical neoplasms; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

The cervical cancer is a neoplasia slowly progressive, starting from a pre-invasive lesion, capable of healing in the majority of cases. Still present, it performs as a public health problem in developing countries, such as Brazil, having high rates of prevalence and mortality. Being one of the highest potential cancers prevention and cure, when diagnosed early, besides being treatable as outpatients in most cases that is important to invest in the study of the tracking services of Cervical cancer. Objective: characterize the services of cervical cancer screening in primary care in the city of Goiania. Methodology: Descriptive cross-sectional study, conducted in the primary health care services through a national survey conducted by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Results: The study sample consisted of 84 Basic Health Units and the data were collected between July and September 2012. To data collection, a structured, standardized and previously validated instrument was used. There was 82 (97.6 %) of the units work in two shifts, 100 % of them have nurses, over 40 % of them have not permanently inputs for performing Pap Colpocitologia, 117 teams (76.97 %) have more than 3000 people registered in its territory. Conclusion: The study revealed weaknesses in screening service cervical cancer and the need for greater investment in strengthening primary care and greater detection of Cervical Cancer in the municipality.