Condições socioambientais, qualidade de vida e presença da hipertensão arterial na população atendida pela USF PROSIND I, João Pessoa-PB

Abstract

In a broad view of health,should be considered much more than absence of disease.Analyze socio-environmental factors, condition of life and hereditary and ethnic factors is the basis of the construction of a health service that has meaning for the population that needs it, because it is planned according to the reality and local peculiarity.This study aims to understand a sample of society, consisting of micro area 06, of comprehensiveness in the family health unit PROSIND I, part of the Integrated Health Unit Nova União, located in the Mangabeira neighborhood, João Pessoa, Paraíba, analyzing data such as gender, "Race/color", schooling, occupation, age group, and especially the incidence of arterial hypertension and other diseases, such as obesity and diabetes in the black population, who are 68,21% of this population, considerable and xpressive number. Using descriptive research with quantitative-qualitative approach using as a parameter the triangulation of data. We noticed that the disease with the highest incidence is arterial hypertension, reaching 15.54% of the residents, of these 62.16% are women and of these 64.28% are black, of hypertensive people, men represent 37.83%, of these 64.28% are black, then among men and women most of the hypertensive are black. The newspaper O Malho and the Gazeta Médica da Bahia of the decade of 1930 was used as research source to analyze the presence of hypertension in the media of the time, which resulted in the presence of arterial hypertension as a risk factor for health, proving that considering it as a disease is a recent concept.