O perfil do usuário de uma Unidade Básica de Saúde integrada a uma Faculdade Privada

Abstract

In a town of Tocantins , it was implanted an integrated unity of education and health assistance, product of a partnership between the town and a private college – the Health Space. The study proposes to characterize the users’profile concerning the sociodemographic and health variables found in the chart of the users of the Health Space from June 2012 to May 2014. It is a retrospective and descriptive study with a quantitative approach. It was concluded that the clientele was composed of 946 individuals, mainly: female, from 18 to 60 years old, with few years of school attendance and living in the urban area. In what concerns the 2,009 medical appointments, the absolute majority just showed up to one or two medical appointments. The main reasons given to the necessity of an appointment were the childcare segment and routine appointments, as well as requests for prescriptions, sick leaves and complementary exams, and to know the results of the exams. Among the symptoms, pain and fever were the most referred ones. About the medical diagnosis, it was noticed that virus diseases and hypertension were the most common ones. These pieces of information can base innovations in the attending system, learning program and in the implantation of multidisciplinary programs.

Keywords

• Basic Health Care
• Service Learning Integration
• User Profile.