Preventive Night Preventive Examinations and Health Education Practices in Primary Care: An Experience Report
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18316/sdh.v9i3.7640Keywords:
Women’s Health, Cervical Cancer, Breast Cancer, Health EducationAbstract
Objective: To report the experience of performing night activities focused on Women’s Health, such as cytopathological collections, clinical breast examination and health promotion in public service users.
Materials and methods: This is an experience report carried out by the Integrated Health Residency in a municipality in the central backlands of Ceará, from August 2018 to February 2020.
Results: 250 cytopathological collections and clinical examination of the breasts in women, as well as activities related to health promotion. The public was composed, in the great majority, by cooperative members, public employees, caregivers, domestic workers and workers in the morning and afternoon. Through carrying out the activities, moments of selfcare and health promotion were provided to the female public who, for work reasons, were unable to access public services in the daytime.
Conclusion: It was clear that the construction of new ways of doing health in the territory is capable of reducing the repressed demand in women of childbearing age in a public health service.
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