Saúde do homem: conhecendo as necessidades de saúde em uma estratégia de saúde da família

Abstract

Along the times the shares of health come evolving in improving health care to people,in this direction was not attributable to date no health program aimed at promoting actions of comprehensive health care of the man, in this perspective, in 2009 the ministry of health (MH) introduced the National Policy on Comprehensive Health Care Human (NPCHCH). thus was outlined for this study present the realities of the relationship between man and health, considering for this men aged 20 to 59 years old, in a family health strategy (FHS). Were analyzed data as pathologies, age and type of care most sought by those individuals sought assistance when will this health service. The research answered the methodology descriptive cross and examined two hundred eighty-two (282) documents, including records of outpatient care and medical records. The research revealed the profile of these men as individuals aged 50 to 59 years, being whites, marrieds and with little education, who presented the main pathology, circulatory diseases, particularly systemic hypertension, among attendances nursing, medical and dental, medical care, proved prevalent. The result of this study also showed that women attend more to the health service. These results come aligned to the data already revealed by NPCHCH and leads us to think about the quality of care provided by health services to male population.