NON-COMMUNICABLE CHRONIC DISEASES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PUBLIC POLICIES AND PRIMARY CARE
Chronic diseases; Primary Health Care; Public policy; Health Planning.
Public Policies are configured as tools to solve the population's problems and needs or as a way to alleviate them. They can be implemented through programs, projects, laws and involve a variety of actors, values and interests for their formulation process and can take on different spaces. The Ministry of Health has implemented important policies to combat Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases. Primary Health Care is the gateway to access health services and plays an important role in the prevention of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and in their control strategies, through the Family Health Strategy. In Brazil, these pathologies are a major health problem that strongly affects poor sections of the population and more vulnerable groups. This is a descriptive study with a quanti-qualitative approach that uses documentary and field research techniques. The research will be carried out in the municipality of Pau dos Ferros, located in the semiarid region of the Northeast, in the Alto Oeste Potiguar region. Part of the study will be of a documentary nature, through information contained in the e-SUS system, for an epidemiological survey and another part will be field research in Basic Health Units in the city. The survey of epidemiological data will be through the e-SUS APS system. The sample has as planned the quantitative of 100% of professionals that make up the minimum teams of the ESF, these being Nurses, Physicians and Community Health Agents and at least 5 users with chronic non-communicable diseases in each unit. The analysis of qualitative data will be through Bardin Content Analysis and quantitative through descriptive statistical analysis, with the aid of Microsoft Excel.