Procedures are done in primary care, by Family Health Support Center (NASF) teams.
With the aim of stimulating comprehensive social alternatives for health promotion and prevention, the Ministry of Health is implementing several activities in primary care units in the municipality. The procedures are performed by the Family Health Support Center (NASF) teams.
In the Praia do Siqueira area, NASF organizes a community walking group with a focus on the elderly, hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. It also enhances the range of sports and leisure activities at Alfredo Castro Municipal School for Teenagers; ESF Manoel Corrêa women’s futsal group for teenage girls and women; and a group of sports and leisure activities at the Louis Lindenberg Municipal School for Teens.
In the Porto do Caro district, there are a group of conversation circles for young people aged 14-25 and a group for people over 50.
In the Jacaré district, NASF is promoting the exhibitor project “Less Salt, More Love, Your Heart Will Thank You,” with nutritional guidance for patients from ESFs Jardim Caiçara, Peró, Cajueiro and Jacaré.
In Tameus, NASF organizes a group for women with chronic illnesses with a history of depression and anxiety. And another group, the walking group for hypertensive users or diabetics, is at Florestinha ESF.
According to the Assistant Minister for Health Surveillance and Primary Care, Kainá Gago, the aim of these actions is to emphasize the strengthening and qualification of the family health strategy in primary care, seeking to integrate the population and work together. in health care prevention.
“We are moving to standardize and strengthen primary prevention care. Management believes that SUS is not only about treating disease, but also that the focus should be much more on health promotion, information and education, and the contribution to healthy habits, physical activity, food, life, and tobacco control; controlling abusive use of alcoholic beverages; and special care aimed at old age,” Kainá explains.
Anyone interested in participating in the most diverse physical, health, and well-being activities can go to the unit in their neighborhood to register and follow the monthly schedule.
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