Perfil Epidemiológico dos pacientes atendidos pela rede ambulatorial de Fisioterapia desenvolvida pelo Núcleo de Apoio da Saúde da Família (NASF) no município de Inhumas-GO

Abstract

Introduction: NASF (Nucleus of Family Health Support) is an innovative program which was implanted in Inhumas city, Goiás state in 2009. Its purpose is to improve, increase and support health program on basic attention. Physiotherapy department of the Nucleus has provided many benefits for the population. This way, is necessary to describe an epidemiological profile on Health System to assist Inhumas City managers on physiotherapy needs to plan the next public policies. Aim: Identify epidemiologic profiles of patients treated on ambulatory system of NASF from Inhumas-Goiás. Materials and methods: It is a transversal quantitative research; data were gathered from all patients attended by Physiotherapy Team from NASF-AB in this city, during 2016 and 2017, including all sorts of ages available on data base. It was elaborated a form to add patients data, then it was uploaded on Excel 2016 software; a graphic was designed and after a descriptive analyzes of these information. Results and discussion: 313 patients were attended, treatment time was designed according to each individual, pathology and recuperation period. Treatments were realized in different physiotherapy fields – orthopedic, respiratory, oncological and neurological – prevailing patients at ages 48 to 58 years, dun people, which treatment last about 2 months. Comparing with other researches, we could observe similar results to ours. Conclusion: After analyzes, we concluded that epidemiological profiles of treatment, it was most of all orthopedic physiotherapies, with high incidence on fractures, women, and the main attendance was in on average age of 54 and the predominant race was the nun people.