Macrocampaign: alternatives to health promotion

Abstract

To reflect about teaching and practicing nursing in public and collective health, helps to direct the teaching/learning nursing process to a health promotion alternative,involving nursing students of UFRGS with Lions Clubs, Health State Secretaries and, specially, with the population and the media, so that early detection of high blood preassure and diabetes and also health promotion could be focus on Macrocampaingns Project. The aim is to early detect high blood preassure, diabetes and to promote health, individually and collectivelly, in a short period of time, at places of major concentration of persons, using academic work power, clubs of service, participation of the population and the media. The method used on this investigation was of interviews, blood preassure measurement, blood sugar checking, and filling forms from spontaneous demand in shoppings malls and other sites, by two professors and 58 nursing students of UFRGS. The main aspects of the results are that 15% of the demand have high blood preassure and 9% have high level of blood sugar.