ACADEMIA CARIOCA PROGRAM: INTERSECTORAL ARTICULATION AS A COPING STRATEGY FOR TUBERCULOSIS IN THE FAMILY HEALTH (SMSRJ-BRAZIL)

Introduction: Tuberculosis is still considered a public health problem permeated by paradigms that hinder its control in everyday health services. The Academia Carioca Program implemented in 2009 by the Municipal Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro as Health Promotion strategy by offering regular physical activity oriented by physical education professional and integrated actions of the Family Health it acts in the expansion of the coordination of health care. Objective: Present the proposal for action of the 2016 planning and the results achieved by the team of physical education professional (EPEF) Academia Carioca Program for the Coordination of Communicable Disease Care Lines (CDT) as intra-sectoral strategy for the treatment and control of tuberculosis. Method: It is a community assay participant observation and data collected in systematic activities in places indicated by situational diagnosis as vulnerable to disease. Results and Conclusion: Initially, it obtained increased strategic network of prevention and support treatment as from the insertion of EPEF and participants in the Academia Carioca Program, subsidized by the CDT. This Multipliers Network, represented by 109 professionals and more than 82,000 participants in the Program in Primary Care Units, acts in order to contribute to the actions already practiced, making it active in the preventive process, treatment and healing, focusing on strengthening Community. The intra-sectoral articulation presented, decentralized and conscious, meet the need for integration with existing strategies aimed at health promotion and improving the population‘s quality of life for tuberculosis control.