Sociodemographic and clinical profile of elderly persons accompanied by Family Health teams under the gender perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Patrícia Aparecida Barbosa Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Francielle Carolina Santos, Sônia Maria Soares, Líliam Barbosa Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/58473; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3161-717X
• topic: Demographic Aging; Gender Relations; Cross-sectional Studies; Family Health Strategy; Dinâmica Populacional; Relações de Gênero; Estudos Transversais; Estratégias de Saúde Nacionais

Objective: to evaluate the sociodemographic and clinical profile of elderly diabetic and/or hypertensive assisted by family health teams from a gender perspective. Method: it is a quantitative, cross-sectional study included 381 elderly enrolled in the twenty Health Basic Units in District Health Northwest of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Data were collected between October 2011 to March 2012. A Research Ethics Committee, approved the research project, number 0043.0.410.203-10 and 0043.0.410.203-10A. Results: The women are more prevalent, indicating the feminization phenomenon of old age, being mostly from countryside, widowed, with low education and income, and also high burden of disease and mortality. Conclusion: It is necessary to extend of public health studies and policies which should incorporate the gender concept in favor of building a less ageist and sexist society.