Health promotion practices in Amazonas's communities performed by uea cidadã during 2015

Introduction and Objectives Health Promotion is defined as community empowerment process to work on improving their quality of life and health. UEA Cidadã is a program of Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, which introduces academics to public health practice in the community. The provided services are blood pressure measurement, capillary blood glucose test, BMI, oral health, in addition to guidelines and educational lectures. Among the objectives, the highlighted ones are: health promotion by healthy habits and primary prevention, integration of academics of various health fields, providing interdiscipliary training, besides identifying the program’s range in the state. Method It’s a retrospective study of actions performed by UEA Cidadã during 2015 in the capital and countryside of Amazonas State. The data were obtained through program’s digital files, record book and registered data of every attended patient during the activities. Accounted points: amount of community activities, the main achieved areas of the capital and the number of individuals reached. Results and Conclusions In total, 79 actions were performed, 71 in the capital (89.87%) and 8 in the countryside (10.13%). The attended municipalities were: Rio Preto da Eva, Presidente Figueiredo, Iranduba and Itacoatiara. In the capital, 20 actions in the south were accounted, 14 in the west, 14 in the east, 11 in the north, 7 in the midwest and 5 in the south-central. The population attended was 3081. Finally, the strengthening of relations between the Project and the community was observed, as well as the expansion of partnerships that goes beyond health field.