Aportes estruturais e profissionais para atenção a saúde do idoso: um olhar sobre a realidade do município de joão Pessoa/PB

• Autor(a) principal: Vanzella, Elídio
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6528
• topic: Hospitais; Envelhecimento; Médicos Especialistas; Hospitals; Aging; Medical Specialists; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

The aging of the population is occurring at an unprecedented level, so it became the subject of discussions in various sectors of society. The process of aging of the population of João Pessoa, the state capital of Paraiba, challenges the government and its public health policies, to attend the needs for improvement of hospital services, because in the near future there will be more elderly than that hospital structures to meet the standards established by Ordinance No. 249/SAS/MS, 2002 that addresses the standards for registration of Reference Centers for the Elderly Health Care. Among the physicians, the option by specialties with a focus on elderly, such as geriatrics is not accompanying the growth curve of the elderly population. To analyze the situation in the city of Joao Pessoa, it was held an exploratory-descriptive and inferential study, developed from quantitative and qualitative approaches to deepening of the phenomenon in focus. Data related to hospitals, were collected through a questionnaire with closed questions in the healthcare institutions that agreed to participate of this research and the Regional Council of Medicine of Paraiba (CRM / PB) provided information on the specialties and number of medical professionals in office. The data related to hospitals were analyzed and then it was checked the similarities and differences of these institutions compared to that proposed Ordinance No. 249/SAS/MS of 2002 in order to classify them as Reference Centers for the Elderly Health Care. In relation to the data of the doctors, they were analyzed statistically using the methodologies of Time Series and Regression Analysis. The results showed that the city of João Pessoa, in 2011, did not have hospitals that met the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health regarding the standards for registration of Centers of Reference on Health Care of the Elderly. In relation to medical professionals, it was observed that, the number exceeds the ratio recommended by the World Health Organization. However, the number of physicians in the most demand specialties by the elderly has an unfavorable trend in the relation doctor elderly, and the specialty of geriatrics present the major deficiency without a perspective of a better situation in the short time.