A Política Nacional de Atenção Integral à Saúde do Homem orientou a formulação de estratégias e ações fundamentando-se na atenção integral, com vistas à promoção da saúde e à prevenção de agravos, tendo sido focalizadas como eixos fundamentais na Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF). Este artigo teve por objetivo descrever as especificidades da atenção à saúde dos homens no âmbito da ESF, conforme a visão do gestor, a demanda dos homens adstritos às unidades avaliadas e as práticas desenvolvidas pelas equipes. A atenção à saúde do homem foi avaliada por meio de entrevista a 43 gestores de equipes da ESF (EqSF), sorteadas de forma sistemática contemplando as diferentes regiões, porte dos municípios e cobertura da ESF; e pela entrevista de 86 homens adultos, das respectivas áreas de cobertura da ESF. Observou-se que as EqSF têm como estratégia abordar o processo saúde/doença no contexto familiar e ambiental, no entanto, no que se refere à saúde do homem, ainda há lacunas, desde a adequação da estrutura para o atendimento na atenção básica à motivação e desenvolvimento de ações de promoção contra os agravos mais frequentes nesta população, o que, por vezes, têm dificultado o acesso à saúde, por parte da população masculina, distanciando o alcance do objetivo da Política.
Palavras-chave:
Saúde do Homem,
Políticas de Saúde
Gênero e Saúde
Programa Saúde da Família
Abstract:
The National Politics of Integral Attention for Man directed the strategies formulations and actions based on integral attention, aiming the health promotion and disease prevention, focused on basic issues of the Family Health Strategy (FHS). This article describes the specificities of men’s health attention in the context of the FHS according the vision of the manager, the men’s need and the developed actions in the geographical area of the FHS unity. Men’s health attention was evaluated by interviews with 43 FHS managers, systematically elected considering the geographical region, city size and the ESF cover; and interviewing 86 men’s of the same ESF cover area. The strategy of the FHS is to approach the health-disease process in the family and behavioral context. However, in the man’s health sector still there are several gaps, since the inadequate physical structure of the building for man health consultation until the weak motivation of the ESF unity for the development of promotion actions against the most common health problems of the community. This situation limits the man’s health access to the primary health services far from the Politics’s goal .
Keywords:
Man Health
Health Politics
Gender and Health
Family Health Programs
Men’s Health Assistance in the Family Health Strategy
Resumo (abstract):
The National Politics of Integral Attention for Man directed the strategies formulations and actions based on integral attention, aiming the health promotion and disease prevention, focused on basic issues of the Family Health Strategy (FHS). This article describes the specificities of men’s health attention in the context of the FHS according the vision of the manager, the men’s need and the developed actions in the geographical area of the FHS unity. Men’s health attention was evaluated by interviews with 43 FHS managers, systematically elected considering the geographical region, city size and the ESF cover; and interviewing 86 men’s of the same ESF cover area. The strategy of the FHS is to approach the health-disease process in the family and behavioral context. However, in the man’s health sector still there are several gaps, since the inadequate physical structure of the building for man health consultation until the weak motivation of the ESF unity for the development of promotion actions against the most common health problems of the community. This situation limits the man’s health access to the primary health services far from the Politics’s goal .
Palavras-chave (keywords):
Man Health
Health Politics
Gender and Health
Family Health Programs
MOURA, EC, SANTOS, W., Neves, A.C.M., Romeu Gomes, Schwarz E. Atenção à saúde dos homens no âmbito da Estratégia Saúde da Família. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2013/Mai). [Citado em 28/09/2024].
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