A POLÍTICA DE PROMOÇÃO DA SAÚDE NO ESTADO DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL E A POPULAÇÃO IDOSA: POTENCIALIDADES E DESAFIOS DO PROGRAMA ACADEMIA DA SAÚDE

Abstract

Since it emerged as an important public health strategy, Health Promotion has been implemented in different contexts to address the problems that affect the population's health, and are strictly linked to their daily lives. With this, the Health gym program was created to offer services and initiatives for health promotion and prevention of diseases and injuries, as well as bodily practices capable of composing new dimensions of care in Primary Health Care. Since then, it has played an important economic and social role in the life of the elderly, and provides the population with opportunities for lifestyle changes, such as regular physical activity, dietary reeducation, weight loss and the practice of self-care. These actions can reduce health implications, such as the excessive use of services, hospital admissions, surgeries and medication expenses, and contribute to the reduction of morbidity and mortality from non-communicable chronic diseases, which expands daily practices to improve the quality of life of these patients public. The objective of this study was to analyze the potential and challenges of the Health gym program in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul. The materials and methods included in its design an ecological and retrospective study, cross-sectional, and document analysis, with a quantitative-qualitative approach. In the results, the brief communication deals with the monitoring of the implementation and implementation actions of the Health gym program at the federal level, which indicated advances in the proposals for structuring, adherence, social participation, dissemination, inclusion of different professional categories between the years of analysis, from 2015 to 2019. Article 1 verified the nutritional status and food consumption of the elderly registered in the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System between the years 2015 to 2022, which showed overweight and obesity in the female audience, eutrophic and low weight in the public male, and high intake of ultra-processed foods. Article 2 brings the characterization of the collective activities carried out and recorded in the Information and Health System for Primary Care, in the years 2019 to 2022 with the elderly public, and a result was lower than expected. It is worth noting the instability of the information available in the health information systems of the Ministry of Health, which demonstrates the low adherence of the elderly and the evaluation activities and collective procedures recorded. Therefore, it was evident the challenges regarding the monitoring and implementation of actions in the poles, the processes of continuity of adherence to the program, financing, and completion of the works. From the potentialities, the program contributes to guarantee society a safe space, with professionals committed to caring for the individual, as well as to strengthen the principles of the Unified Health System, universalization, equity and integrality, with therapeutic possibilities of quality and in a interdisciplinary.