Day of comprehensive men´s health care: strategic action of the Family Health Unit of the district of Rio Comprido, in the city of Jacareí (State of São Paulo)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze and discuss the findings obtained from the male population served by the men’s health attention campaigns, in relation with the procedures performed and morbidities, especially regarding the sexually transmissible diseases (STD), as well as their impact on the access of the male users to
this service. The study also describes the campaigns in the Family Health Unit of the district of Rio Comprido, in the city of Jacareí (State of São Paulo), introduced
in the period of 2007 to 2011, except in 2009, as a strategy for men’s health promotion. The data about the procedures performed after the campaigns and about the STD were obtained, respectively, through the consultation of medical records and of STD notification forms. The findings were used as subsidies for the organizational planning of the mentioned Family Health Unit, involving the health needs and the male population cares, improving, as a consequence, the access to the primary health attention.