Hypertensive Elderly and Public Health Care Services, Kaloré, Parana, 2008
Keywords:
Elderly, hypertension, public health, medicines.
Abstract
The elderly population is causing reversal of the epidemiological characteristics due to the higher incidence of chronic degenerative diseases. Among these diseases, hypertension is responsible for high morbidity and mortality in this population. Aiming to characterize the incidence of hypertensive elderly population and the care provided in basic health services in municipalities with high elderly incidence, a descriptive study was conducted using obtained data from the Families Register records for the elderly selection that were approached at home. It was found that the city, 59.40% of the subjects had hypertension, 57.40% female, undergoing hypertension treatment (99.30%) on combination therapy (73.70%). Habits of life note: the diet control (91.70%), no consumption of alcoholic beverages (89.90%), not smoking (87.50%) and physical exercise (30.60%). It is concluded that the city offers good support for the elderly health: treatment with drugs prescription, medicine supplies, advice on healthy lifestyle habits to reduce the complicating pathology, good coverage and distribution of antiretroviral drugs by encouraging prescribed therapy and encouraging adherence to treatment.
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