As ações de prevenção da doença renal na Estratégia da Saúde da Família..

Abstract

The epidemiologic profile is characterized by a decrease process of infectious diseases to an increase of Not Transmitted Chronic Diseases (NTCDs). The changing of this profile is characterized by the birth taxes reduction and the increase of life expectation that generates an increasing of chronic conditions, such as Systemic Arterial High Pressure, cardiovascular diseases, Mellitus Diabetes, obesity and different neoplasias. The knowledge of the chronic diseases risk factors is very important to confronting them, since it’s through it that actions and measures will be planned aiming the control, prevention and reductions of such grievance. Among the NTCDs, the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) has been having a huge impact in the health conditioners once it provokes significant alterations on the individuals’, their families and society routines. The Family Health Strategy (FHS) is characterized by a set of health actions, individual and collective, that reaches its promotion and protections and prevention of those grievances that are developed in delimited places, with actions of multidisciplinary teams and community participation. On this hand, the FHS comes the ideal scenario to apply actions regarding the chronic kidney disease prevention for its organization and its multidisciplinary team actions. This study aimed to understand the actions developed the Family Health Strategy team on the prevention of the chronic kidney disease, investigate the health professionals’ recognizing in relation to CKD risk factors, describe the prevention actions performed by FHS, regarding to life habits implementation and turned clinical management. It is a qualitative study, which had as a theoretical basis the conceptions and guidelines of Health Promotion National Policy. The data collection was performed through interviews. !7 professionals from FHS have participated on it, from three Health Basic Units, in the period between July to August of 2012. The data analysis was performed using the Bardin’s content. The results have shown that the professionals recognize that the risk factors for the development of kidney disease are the ones related to previous diseases, such as high pressure and diabetes; no health practices and life style. They also recognize that groups of risk that have a higher contribution for the disease rising are the ones more frequently frequent the basic attention health service, coming this a scenario to the fighting against the chronic kidney disease, regarding to its prevention or advance.