O perfil epidemiológico das pessoas hipertensas no município de Luiziânia - SP

• Autor(a) principal: Grego, Aparecida de Fátima
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USC
• Texto Completo: http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/4
• topic: HIPERTENSÃO ARTERIAL; PROGRAMA DE SAÚDE DA FAMÍLIA; ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION; FAMILY HEALTH PROGRAM; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

The Cardiovascular Diseases are the main factor for morbimortality in the world population. Brazilian studies show that arterial hypertension is responsible for 40% of deaths caused by encephalic vascular accidents, and 25% of deaths caused by coronary disease. As a result, arterial hypertension is one of the most important risk factors to the development of cardiovascular diseases. The high cost of Arterial hypertension for social and medical care calls not only the country s but also all the Brazilian states and district s attention. Cultivating some new models of health attention and promotion in order to decrease some of the problems, what it is called the Family Health Program was settled in some districts, aiming to increase the adhesion to the treatment and create responsibilities to the social and individual healthcare. Thus, the knowledge of arterial hypertension distribution is an instrument of extreme importance to the implementation of actions which are going to act not only in the prevention level but also to avoid the aggravating points as well as the squeals, what meets the purpose of this study - to describe the population whose hypertension has been diagnosed and registered in the city of Luiziânia during the year of 2002. For that, it was used some data which were provided by the Basic Attendance Information System and the HIPERDIA (personal data records of diabetes and hypertension patients) of the district, which has two teams that could register and record personal information of approximately 557 people of 20 years old and over who have arterial hypertension, with a prevalence of 12.77%. Luiziânia has a population, with a predominance of white people, either in the population in general or in the arterial hypertension, and among women of all ages with the sum of 66%. According to the schooling distribution, and after organizing a somatory data between literate and illiterate people, without any specification, a rate of over 84% was found and 89.28% of those people have a good familiar situation that can facilitate the Family Health Program work. 60% of the male who have arterial hypertension are retired. For women, the sum of retired and housewives is 91%. According to the variable to obesity, a total series between overweight and obese people in I, II, and III stages respectively was done. It s important that the Family Health Program team can work, starting from these results, with young people and with a schedule of those preventive actions to arterial hypertension which are connected to habit changes and to the practice of physical exercises in order to decrease the risk factors.