scholarly journals COMBINING VARIOUS FORMS OF TREATMENT TO HEALTH: A STUDY OF ELDERLY IN PRIMARY CARE

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciane Paula Batista Araújo de Oliveira ◽  
Sílvia Maria Azevedo dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Concurrent Use ◽  
The Subject

ABSTRACT The study aimed to analyze the contextual conditions that influence the use of medications in elderly assisted in primary health care. Qualitative study with contribution of Grounded Theory, held in Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, where 30 elderly patients on medications were interviewed . Data were coded and a model consisting of nine categories was generated. The two categories that explain the contextual conditions of the phenomenon are, Interacting with the support network and The concurrent use of medicines, teas, home remedies and faith, but only the latter is the subject of discussion in this article. To accommodate various treatments, the elderly tried to understand and compare their functions and exercise the faith in God. The act of reconciling different treatments is part of contextual conditions that influence the phenomenon studied, creating a set of circumstances to which these seniors accounted seeking strategies to deal with drug use in daily life.

scholarly journals PANDEMIA DE COVID-19 E PROMOÇÃO DA SAÚDE DO IDOSO NA PERSPECTIVA DE TRABALHADORES DA SAÚDE

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Xavéle Braatz Petermann ◽  
Sheila Kocourek
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The Impact

Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar a influência da pandemia de COVID-19 na promoção da saúde do idoso na perspectiva de trabalhadores da saúde da atenção primária. Trata de um estudo de caso, transversal e qualitativo desenvolvido em um município de pequeno porte do interior do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Participaram sete trabalhadores, sendo a amostra intencional, por conveniência e saturação. Os dados foram coletados mediante grupo focal e entrevistais individuais e analisados por meio da análise temática. As categorias que denotaram a influência da pandemia de COVID-19 na promoção da saúde do idoso compreenderam o distanciamento da rede de suporte social e a rede de apoio familiar. Os resultados encontrados retrataram o impacto da pandemia na vida dos idosos, em especial na saúde mental e emocional, sendo necessárias diretrizes de continuidade das ações de promoção da saúde.PANDEMIC OF COVID-19 AND HEALTH PROMOTION OF THE ELDERLY FROM THE HEALTH WORKERS PERSPECTIVEAbstractThis study aimed to analyze the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the promotion of elderly health from the perspective of primary health care workers. This is a case study, cross-sectional and qualitative developed in a small city in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Seven workers participated, the sample being intentional, for convenience and saturation. Data were collected through a focus group and individual interviews and analyzed through thematic analysis. The categories that denoted the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic in promoting the health of the elderly included the distance from the social support network and the family support network. The results found portrayed the impact of the pandemic on the lives of the elderly, especially on mental and emotional health, requiring guidelines for the continuity of health promotion actions.Keywords: Health Promotion. Elderly. COVID-19. Health worker. Primary Health Care.

scholarly journals Razões que levam os pacientes com tuberculose a abandonarem o tratamento: perspectivas do enfermeiro

2019 ◽  
Vol 87 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirian Adriana Sackser ◽  
Anelise Miritz Borges
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Recursos Humanos ◽  
One Year ◽  
Basic Health Units

Objetivo: Identificar os motivos que levam os pacientes a desistir do tratamento da tuberculose no município de SantaCruz do Sul, a partir da visão dos enfermeiros que atuam em unidades de atenção primária de saúde. Metodologia: Tratase de uma pesquisa descritiva, exploratória, com delineamento qualitativo, realizada em cinco Unidades Básicas de Saúde(UBS) e cinco Estratégias de Saúde da Família (ESF) vinculadas ao município de Santa Cruz do Sul/Rio Grande do Sul. Paraa coleta de dados foi realizada entrevista, utilizando um questionário semiestruturado, gravado, aplicado individualmente.A Análise foi conduzida pela análise de Conteúdo, temática de Bardin 2011. Principais resultados: Foram 10 enfermeirasentrevistadas, metade possuía menos de um ano de experiência na unidade, referiram dificuldades no manejo dos sintomáticos respiratórios como a falta de tempo, recursos humanos e dificuldades de envolver o usuário no tratamento. Naperspectiva das enfermeiras entre os motivos envolvidos no abandono, estão o tempo terapêutico elevado, fatores sociais,e os efeitos colaterais dos medicamentos. Conclusão: A qualificação contínua da equipe sobre o manejo frente a doença,fortalece a assistência em saúde, tornando o usuário mais seguro quanto ao seu autocuidado, reduzindo as chances deabandono do tratamento.Descritores: Tuberculose; Enfermagem; Saúde coletiva; Pacientes desistentes do tratamento Objective: To identify the reasons that lead patients to give up tuberculosis treatment in the municipality of Santa Cruzdo Sul, based on the view of nurses working in primary health care units. Methodology: This is a descriptive, exploratory,qualitative study, carried out in five Basic Health Units (UBS in Portuguese) and five Family Health Strategies (ESF in Portuguese) linked to the municipality of Santa Cruz do Sul/Rio Grande do Sul. For the data collection, an interview was conducted using a semi-structured, recorded questionnaire, applied individually. The analysis was conducted by the analysis ofthe thematic content of Bardin 2011. Main results: Ten nurses were interviewed and half of them had less than one year ofexperience in the unit, they reported difficulties in the management of respiratory symptoms such as lack of time, humanresources and difficulties to involve the user in the treatment. From the perspective of nurses between the reasons involved in the abandonment, are the high therapeutic time, social factors, and the side effects of the medications. Conclusion:Continuous qualification of staff on the front handling the disease, strengthens health care, making the user more secureabout their self-care, reducing the chances of noncompliance.Keywords: Tuberculosis; Nursing; Public Health; Patient Dropouts

scholarly journals The Role of Primary Health Care Toward Healthy Aging

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1SP) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Dhanasari Vidiawati ◽  
Yuda Turana ◽  
Tonny Sundjaya
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health

Background: According to the World Health Organization, healthy aging is the process of developing and maintaining functional abilities that make the elderly happy. The increase in the elderly population requires more attention. In particular, health services at the primary health care level face problems related to the limited capacity of overall health services, especially in terms of health promotion and preventive health issues. It is necessary to improve the quality of health care services for the elderly to prevent greater health problems among the elderly population.Objectives: Understand the need to provide holistic health services for healthy aging and use their capabilities, and strengthen cooperation among health professionals in achieving healthy aging.Discusion: Primary health care is pointed out that primary health care should provide comprehensive services in a holistic manner to support a healthy aging process. Therefore, a well-structured, integrated, and cross-industry collaborative primary care system is needed. The system should include changes in professional behavior, coordination of care, and participation of patients' families and communities in comprehensive health care. This can be achieved through inter-professional education, continuous training and education of primary health care professionals, as well as primary health care services and cross-level health care technology innovation.Conclusions: Healthy aging is not just the absence of disease. Everyone in health and social care at all levels can play a role to help improve healthy aging. To make the elderly healthy, starting from the prevention of young health problems, it requires collaboration between health workers, primary health care and other health service levels, and health care that cooperates with patients, families, and communities.Keywords: healthy aging, primary care, preventive, health worker

scholarly journals Qualidade da atenção à saúde do idoso atenção primária: uma revisão integrativa

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 545-589
Author(s):  
Ricardo Saraiva Aguiar ◽  
Henrique Salmazo da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Quality Of Health Care ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Recursos Humanos

Objective: To investigate, through an integrative literature review, the quality of health care for the elderly in primary care. Material and Methods: Integrative literature review conducted in MEDLINE/PubMed, SciELO, LILACS and BDENF databases between April and May 2020, which generated 780 references. After removal of the duplicates and use of inclusion and exclusion criteria, the final sample consisted of 15 articles. Results: The quality of health care for the elderly in primary care was associated with potential and weaknesses that involved the availability and training of human resources, adoption of evaluation protocols, monitoring and follow-up, supply of inputs and structural variables linked to infrastructure and intersectoral support network. The effectiveness of actions to the elderly in primary care was related to the implementation of the Family Health Strategy, combined with the active action of the community health agent in the territory and the participation of the elderly in the decisions. Conclusion: Strengthening the health care of the elderly in primary care involves short, medium and long-term efforts related to education, human and material resources management, networking, and the formation of ties with the territory and the elderly person. Objetivo: Investigar, a través de una revisión integradora de la literatura, la calidad de la atención en salud del adulto mayor en atención primaria.Materiales y Métodos: Revisión bibliográfica integradora realizada en las bases de datos MEDLINE / PubMed, SciELO, LILACS y BDENF entre abril y mayo de 2020, que generó 780 referencias. Después de eliminar los duplicados y utilizar los criterios de inclusión y exclusión, la muestra final fue de 15 artículos.Resultados: La calidad de la atención en salud del adulto mayor en atención primaria se asoció con fortalezas y debilidades que involucraron la disponibilidad y formación de recursos humanos, adopción de protocolos de evaluación, seguimiento y seguimiento, suministro de insumos y variables estructurales vinculadas a la infraestructura y red de apoyo intersectorial. La efectividad de las acciones para el adulto mayor en atención primaria estuvo relacionada con la implementación de la Estrategia Salud de la Familia, combinada con el desempeño activo del agente comunitario de salud en el territorio y la participación del adulto mayor en las decisiones.Conclusión: El fortalecimiento de la atención a la salud del anciano en la atención primaria implica esfuerzos a corto, mediano y largo plazo relacionados con la educación, la gestión de los recursos humanos y materiales, el trabajo en red y la formación de vínculos con el territorio y el anciano. Objetivo: Investigar, por meio de uma revisão integrativa da literatura, a qualidade da atenção à saúde do idoso na atenção primária. Materiais e Métodos: Revisão integrativa da literatura realizada nas bases de dados MEDLINE/PubMed, SciELO, LILACS e BDENF entre os meses de abril e maio de 2020, as quais geraram 780 referências. Após remoção das duplicatas e emprego dos critérios de inclusão e exclusão a amostra final foi composta por 15 artigos. Resultados: A qualidade da atenção à saúde do idoso na atenção primária esteve associada a potencialidades e fragilidades que envolveram a disponibilidade e treinamento dos recursos humanos, adoção de protocolos de avaliação, acompanhamento e monitoramento, oferta de insumos e variáveis estruturais ligadas à infraestrutura e à rede de apoio intersetorial. A efetividade das ações à pessoa idosa na atenção primária esteve relacionada à implantação da Estratégia Saúde da Família, conjugada com a atuação ativa do agente comunitário de saúde no território e a participação do idoso nas decisões. Conclusão: Fortalecer a atenção à saúde do idoso na atenção primária envolve esforços a curto, médio e longo prazo relacionados à educação, gestão de recursos humanos e materiais, atuação em rede e a formação de vínculo com o território e a pessoa idosa.

scholarly journals Sarcopenia screening in elderly in primary health care: nurse knowledge and practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rutielle Ferreira Silva ◽  
Maria do Livramento Fortes Figueiredo ◽  
Juan José Tirado Darder ◽  
Ana Maria Ribeiro dos Santos ◽  
Maria Antonieta Rubio Tyrrell
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Care Nurse ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Nurses ◽  
Nurse Knowledge

ABSTRACT Objective: Describe the knowledge and practices of the Primary Health Care nurse on sarcopenia screening in the elderly. Methods: Qualitative study conducted with 24 Primary Health Care nurses. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews, recorded and later transcribed. The speeches were grouped in thematic categories, later analyzed, supported by Paulo Freire’s reference. Results: The findings showed that the primary care nurses’ knowledge of sarcopenia screening in the elderly was incipient and fragile. This reality is reflected in a gap in practice, although some instruments already require the registration of characteristics indicative of sarcopenia, such as the evaluation of the calf circumference. Final Considerations: The need to train nurses to perform sarcopenia screening and to implement a promotional and preventive care plan, which will result in improving the quality of life of the elderly assisted in Primary Care, was highlighted.

scholarly journals Integrative and complementary practices in Primary Care: unveiling health promotion

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indiara Sartori Dalmolin ◽  
Ivonete Teresinha Schülter Buss Heidemann
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Three Stages

Objective: to understand the use of integrative and complementary practices as a health promotion action. Method: qualitative study, action-participant type, with the application of Paulo Freire’s Research Itinerary, in which 30 Primary Health Care professionals participated. Thematic research was developed with two Primary Care Units, one that used integrative and complementary practices in daily life and another that focused more on allopathic concepts of assistance. To carry out the three stages of the method used, seven Culture Yarning Circles took place. The critical unveiling took place concurrently with the participation of those surveyed. Results: integrative and complementary practices constitute a form of health care, with the purpose of understanding the human being in the health-disease process, making it possible to work with the different aspects that involve them. In this way, they reduce damages resulting from the excessive use of medications, stimulate comprehensiveness and promote health. Conclusion: integrative and complementary practices are resources for health promotion, through comprehensive care and reducing the use of medications.

scholarly journals Implementation of the e-SUS Primary Care system: Impact on the routine of Primary Health Care professionals

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiele Estefâni Schönholzer ◽  
Ione Carvalho Pinto ◽  
Fabiana Costa Machado Zacharias ◽  
Rodrigo André Cuevas Gaete ◽  
Maria Del Pilar Serrano-Gallardo
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Primary Care System ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care System

Objective: to understand how the implementation of the e-SUS Primary Care system has been processed and its impact on the daily life of the health teams. Method: a qualitative research study, conducted in a municipality in the inland of the state of São Paulo with professionals who work in Primary Health Care and use the e-SUS Primary Care system as a work tool. Semi-structured interviews and thematic data analysis were used with Kotter’s three-phase approach. Results: a total of 17 professionals, nurses, physicians, dentists and community agents were interviewed. The implementation of e-SUS Primary Care and its impact on the daily life of health teams were understood in terms of mandatory implementation; weaknesses for implementation, such as absence of material resources and implicit imposition for the use of the system; fragile training for deployment and learning from experience. Conclusion: a harmful incentive process was observed, conducted from the perspective of institutional pressure, use of the system to justify the work performed and, on the other hand, there was the creation of collaborative learning mechanisms between the teams.

scholarly journals Factors associated with the care of elderly persons with Primary Health Care sensitive conditions

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 773-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anderson da Silva Rêgo ◽  
Leidyani Karina Rissardo ◽  
Giovana Aparecida de Souza Scolari ◽  
Rafaely de Cássia Nogueira Sanches ◽  
Lígia Carreira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Emergency Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Sensitive Conditions

Abstract Objective: to analyze factors associated with the care of the elderly for Primary Health Care sensitive conditions in an Emergency Care Unit. Method: a cross-sectional study was carried out in a municipal district located in the northwest of the state of Paraná, Brazil, between May and November of 2015. A semi-structured instrument was used, consisting of three distinct blocks that addressed sociodemographic profile, characterization of care and the reasons that led the elderly to seek care in the unit. The data were submitted to descriptive analysis and logistic regression for the treatment of variables. Results: A total of 191 elderly persons, who were female (56%), had less than eight years of schooling (85.3%) and were retirees (78.5%) were interviewed. The results showed that people with chronic morbidities were 1.42 times more likely (CI: 1.08 - 5.42) to seek the Emergency Care Unit prior to the Basic Health Unit and were 1.65 times more likely (IC: 1.01 - 6.82) to be referred by the unit for care. The lack of a doctor in Basic Health Units was also a factor responsible for the 1.36 times greater chance (CI: 1.03 - 5.38) of the elderly being referred to the Emergency Care Unit for primary care sensitive conditions. Conclusion: the lack of human resources in the first level of care of the health service, together with the need for treatment of morbidities, were factors associated with the elderly seeking treatment for primary care sensitive conditions, with diseases of the osteomuscular and connective tissue systems the main reasons for seeking such care (47.6%).

Historical and medical aspects of the organization of medical and social services for the elderly and senile people in Russia in the late XX — early XXI centuries

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Kaspruk
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Geriatric Service ◽  
Delivery Of Medical Care ◽  
Older Citizens

When analyzing the historical and medical aspects of the organization of medical and social services for the elderly and senile people in Russia in the late XX — early XXI centuries not only obvious achievements in this sphere, but also a number of problems requiring solution were identified. The primary role in the delivery of medical care to geriatric patients is assigned to the primary health care sector. However the work of the geriatric service in the format of a single system for the provision of long-term medical and social care based on the continuity of patient management between differ- ent levels of the health care system and between the health and social protection services is not well organized. There is no clear coordination and interaction between health care and social protection institutions, functions of which include providing care to older citizens, and it significantly reduces the effectiveness of the provision of both medical and social services.

Brazilian National Household Health Survey and PCAT: the case of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
L F Pinto ◽  
D Soranz ◽  
L J Santos ◽  
M S Paranhos ◽  
L S Malta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Household Surveys ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Mato Grosso Do Sul

Abstract Brazil is divided into five administrative regions, 27 federation units and 5,570 municipalities. Mato Grosso do Sul is one of the states located in the Midwest region and has 1.6 million km2 and a resident population of 2.8 million inhabitants, that is, it has an even lower demographic density than its region - only 7.8 inhabitants/km2. Mato Grosso do Sul has part of the Pantanal, a biome considered the largest continuous floodplain in the world, rich in biodiversity. For this reason, displacements for data collection in household surveys combine roads and rivers. In 2019, the Brazilian National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica del Brasile) in partnership with the Ministry of Health launched the world's largest household sample survey, the National Health Survey (PNS-2019), in which part of its questions included the use of Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT, adult version), created by professors Barbara Starfield and Leiyu Shi in the 2000s. IBGE interviewers visited more than 100,000 households across the country. In Mato Grosso do Sul, more than 3,000 households were surveyed. In this work, we present the data collection instrument used by IBGE and its multiple analysis possibilities in the scope of primary health care, crossing the variables from other questionnaire modules in order to compare the results from Brazil with the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and its capital, Campo Grande. Developing a baseline and measuring the attributes of primary health care in each of the Brazilian states is another step towards giving health policy accountability, towards strong primary care. IBGE's experience in household surveys and innovation in data collection in primary care is an example for the world that yes, it is possible to develop statistically representative national sample surveys and make them perennial in their regular household surveys, by the time World Health Organization (WHO) discusses universal health coverage. Key messages Evaluation of primary care using an internationally validated instrument is possible on national bases with random household sample surveys. A questionnaire elaborated academically can be used as an instrument of public policy to evaluate nationwide health services.

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