Ecobiological context of home visits from the perspective of users in the municipality of Aracaju, state of Sergipe - SE, Brazil

Leane de Carvalho Machado,Andrea Gomes de Santana Melo,Cláudia Moura Melo

doi:10.14393/bj-v34n3a2018-33473

Abstract

Ecobiological context of home visits from the perspective of users in the municipality of Aracaju, state of Sergipe - SE, Brazil

Highlights

Home visits (HV) play a major role in health care, as they allow one to evaluate the environmental and physical conditions in which individuals and their families live, to assist and apply control measures both for communicable and parasitic diseases and for non-communicable diseases, and, especially, to educate (KAWAMOTO et al, 1995)
The HV users studied in the municipality of Aracaju/SE consisted of 216 individuals with a mean age of 56.1 ± 25.6 years
An ecomap allowed us to analyse the relationship between users and caregivers and verify that there is an inexpressive participation of friends and acquaintances in the healthcare of HV users in Aracaju

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Introduction

Home visits (HV) play a major role in health care, as they allow one to evaluate the environmental and physical conditions in which individuals and their families live, to assist and apply control measures both for communicable and parasitic diseases and for non-communicable diseases, and, especially, to educate (KAWAMOTO et al, 1995). Despite being an old procedure, HV bring innovative results, as they allow one to know the reality of users and their families in loco and to strengthen the bonds between users, therapists and healthcare professionals (SOUZA et al, 2004). HV are an instrument that allows one to get to know the family and the lifestyle and work of its members, the solidarity patterns that develop within the family environment and how the patterns can contribute to caring, curing or recovering one of its members. The National Primary Care Policy (Política Nacional de Atenção Básica PNAB) describes the working process of Family Health Teams (FHTs) as directing the practice towards “extended family care, effective through the knowledge of the structure and functionality of families, which aims to propose interventions that influence health-disease processes of individuals, families and their own community” (BRASIL, 2006a; RODRIGUES et al, 2011).

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