Extensionist activity for health promotion for university students

Abstract

Objective: To report the experience and present the results of a health promotion activity by students at the Federal University of Southern Bahia. Method: The activity was configured as a week of health care and anthropometric and cardiovascular data were collected in accordance with the guidelines of the technical manual of Food and Nutritional Surveillance to the VII Brazilian Guideline for Hypertension and updated Cardiovascular Prevention Guideline of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. Results: The activity presented that more than 60% of students had adequate values for body mass index, waist circumference and blood pressure and more than 40% for waist-to-hip ratio, however, a portion of 10 to 30% presented some parameters over than normal. Conclusions: The activity assumed the character of health promotion and made the student a protagonist. It was found that there were participating students, in need of health care.

Keywords

• promoção da saúde
• serviços de saúde para estudantes
• saúde do estudante
• universidades
• sistema cardiovascular