O CUIDADO DAS CONDIÇÕES CRÔNICAS NA ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE

Resumo

Health conditions can be defined as circumstances in people’s health which are more or less persistent and which require reactive or proactive, episodic or continuous and fragmented or integrated social responses from health care systems, health professionals and health care users. The finding that the classic typology of communicable diseases and noncommunicable diseases cannot support the organization of health care systems led to the proposal of health conditions, which was developed in the late 1990s by scholars linked to the chronic care model(1,2) and then adopted by the World Health Organization(3). Knowing such conditions allows to know them better and thus be able to prevent possible diseases through health promotion strategies. The study of the typology of health conditions is based on the way health professionals, health care users and health care systems are engaged to respond socially to the demands, whether in a reactive, episodic and fragmented way, or in a proactive, continuous and integrated way. Such typology is mainly based on some key variables contained in the concept of health condition: the first refers to the duration of the health condition – short or long