Vigilância das doenças e agravos não transmissíveis no município de Lagoa de Pedras no estado do Rio Grande do Norte: projeto de intervenção

Abstract

Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries are public health problems that affect a greater number of people each year. Even with the systems already developed and in use, there is still no coverage in most small municipalities. This project aims to implement the Surveillance of Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries in the municipality of Lagoa de Pedras, Rio Grande Norte. This is an intervention project, whose scenario is the municipality of Lagoa de Pedras. The proposed actions are: implementation of the surveillance of non-transmissible diseases and conditions, with decentralization, providing health units with reference professionals for their notification and investigation; use of information already available in the notification systems of diseases and injuries and quarterly publication of the epidemiological bulletin of non-communicable diseases and injuries; improve the internet signal and acquire compatible computers for better operability and functioning and proposition of educational campaigns. The project seeks to include the municipality mentioned above in the epidemiological control, based on the data collected and notified in the systems in use, so that it can be part of the statistics and plans to face these diseases and injuries.