ACADEMIA CARIOCA PROGRAM: HYDRO GYMNASTICS AS A WAY TO PROMOTE HEALTH LINKED TO A MUNICIPAL HEALTH CENTRE (SMS-RJ)

Introduction: Chronic non-transmitable diseases represents the majority in numbers of diseases to the health systems, demanding wide number of actions to attend the population needs. The physical activity with proven effects, brought together with health services, can compose an strategic access point to the Primary Attention. The Academia Carioca Program implemented by the Municipal Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro in 2009, consists on this integration offering regular physical activity guided by a physical education professional. Goal: To show the Health Municipal Centre Professor Masao Goto (AP 5.1) experience offering hydro gymnastics modality to people registered on the Family’s Health Strategy. Method: It is a Community Practice aiming evaluate this activity influence on preventing and controlling health. Results and Conclusion: 80 participants, with 52,5± medium, 30,5 year old, being 77% women, were recruited. The group were previously evaluated on anthropometric and physiologic parameters. After ten months, 47% reduced their corporal mass index; 39% reduced their waist/hip related measurement and 70% reduced their abdominal girth. Between hypertensive, 85% kept the blood pressure levels controlled. Along with the hydro gymnastics, the participants were stimulated to have medical appointments regularly and embrace the auto care practice. Reason that the Widen Clinic is essential for the health control and the physical activities practices linked to it strengthen the longitudinally of the care on family and community’s medicine.