Políticas públicas para prevenção às doenças em idosos no município de Santana do Livramento

Abstract

This study aimed to identify how public policies to prevent disease in the elderly population in Santana do Livramento city has designed. Subjects such as Health promotion, quality of life promotion and policies for disease prevention and treatment in elderly population in Santana do Livramento city, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, are approached in this work trying to observe the adopted prevention and treatment policies divulgated by the Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS, the health system adopted in Brazil, taking into account a structure that is presently considered precarious and inefficient, in the sense that does not meet the wishes of part of the population that has been contributing to the State along their whole life. This research brought to light information that, in some way, might contribute to solve elderly health problems in Santana do Livramento, since this research was developed through a qualitative multi-cases study, with a descriptive and exploratory approach, using as tools observation, analysis of documents and interviews done at the Local Health Department, at the Elderly Centre “Mario Mota” and also at the hospital “Santa Casa da Misericordia”, verifying that despite the existence of programmes oriented to diseases’ prevention and health promotion, there is still a great lack in this area due to human, technological or financial resources.