The Health Profile of Basic Care Network Users According to the e-Sus Individual Registry

• Published in: Revista de pesquisa, cuidado é fundamental Vol. 11; no. 5; pp. 1266 - 1271
• Main Authors: Dietrich, Angélica, Colet, Christiane de Fatima, Winkelmann, Eliane Roseli
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Rio de Janeiro Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem 01.10.2019
• Subjects: Diabetes; Education; Herbal medicine; Primary care; Socioeconomic factors; Brazil
• ISSN: 2175-5361
• DOI: 10.9789/2175-5361.2019.v11i5.1266-1271

The monitoring percentage is one of the indicators for monitoring and evaluating this strategy.6 In order to know this percentage, as well as other indicators, the individual user registry was developed, which is a standard questionnaire that was organized by the Ministry of Health to be executed by the health agents of each Family Health Strategy, consisting of questions that respond to personal characteristics, sociodemographic data and general health issues of users in the territory of the teams.6 According to the Primary Care Department of the Ministry of Health, the Ordinance No. 1,412, July 10th, 2013, has made it mandatory to fill in the online data system named e-SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde [Unified Health System]), and this allowed a systematic analysis of the results.6 Information about the health profile of individuals is of paramount importance for the optimization of health services, seeking to reduce expenses and excellence of services provided to the population. [...]it aims to help sensitize health professionals and beneficiaries about the importance of knowing how this population is in relation to their health. There was a predominance of females, within the age group from 50 to 59 years old, white race (skin color), and married. [...]there was a predominance of wage earners with a work permit, low educational level, according to data presented in Table 1. For Cardoso et al, (2013),18 the weight tends to be underestimated frequently by women. [...]can this diagnosis be considered real vis-avis the users' health? [...]this study is important to report that individuals presented a significant number of chronic non-communicable diseases, which may represent a poor prognosis for health with advancing age if health education actions are not performed with this population.