Action empowers managers and professionals to serve on the Nueces River of noncommunicable chronic diseases, which has a strong impact on public health management.
the Ministry of Health launched the project “QualiDia – health education”, to train health professionals in customer service to people with type 2 diabetes and allow teach their patients in controlling the disease through proper nutrition and daily measurement of glucose. The goal is to ensure the improvement of quality of life of people. Today and tomorrow, representatives of States and cities chosen for the inaugural stage of action, in addition to the technical Ministry, participate in the 1st national workshop of QualiDia
, in Brasilia.
in all, 10 municipalities have been selected (the island of Itamaracá (PE), São Lourenço-PE, Recife-PE, Rio Bonito-RIO DE JANEIRO, Silva Jardim-RJ, Anchieta-ES, Porto Alegre-RS, Florianópolis-SC, SC and Tijuca-Rio de Janeiro-RJ). The participants of the meeting will be made aware of the impact of Noncommunicable chronic diseases (DCNT) in health management in Brazil. The theme is a global concern and is on the agenda of the high-level General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), which will be held in September in New York (USA)
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according to the Director of basic care of the Ministry of health, Hêider Pinto, the QualiDia will help define service technologies to prevent the advance of diseases. “We have a traditional service model and there is a need to develop new techniques for prevention of diabetes. The important thing is to understand the basic kind of attention that we offer for each patient. The QualiDia search just bring a new tool of practice focused on self care, in which the patient himself will have more autonomy to control the disease, “says
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the project was designed to strengthen and expand the actions of SUS to health education for self-care, community mobilization, ongoing assessment and implementation of improving the management of care in diabetes type 2. To do this, health professionals will be trained to meet people with type 2 diabetes and teach them to control the disease through proper nutrition and daily measurement of glucose to ensure improved quality of life of people with
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according to the research of Surveillance and risk factors for chronic diseases – Protection of VIGITEL 2009, held by the Ministry of health since 2006, the prevalence of Diabetes is 5.8% autorreferida in the adult population (equal to or greater than 18 years).
With duration of one year, the QualiDia will encourage technical cooperation, the sharing of experiences, community mobilization, commitment in the construction of effective intervention plans for the care of diabetes, in addition to analyzing the hospitalization indicators, to see if the actions undertaken have helped to reduce the number of hospitalizations.
prevention, monitoring, and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes mellitus, is one of the priorities of the Brazilian Government. Since February, 12 types of medicines are being distributed free of charge, for treatment of diabetes, through the Health Programme
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the QualiDia is inserted into the set of actions and partnerships developed in the year of France in Brazil, and for his execution was concluded a technical cooperation agreement between the Ministry of health and the Medical Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul. Other information on the website: http://qualidia.dableo.com.br.
