Attention to the men’s health in family health strategy units

Abstract

The Policy of Integral Attention to Men's Health considers the health disorders of man's health as public health problems that require preventive behavior and specific care actions. This issue justifies the development of this study as to analyze the actions of men’s health care performed by nurses in Family Health Strategy Units and the conditions of these professionals information about the Integral Policy of Human Health in two municipalities in full management of the Vale do Rio Pardo - RS. This is a qualitative exploratory-descriptive research with fifteen nurses who answered to a questionnaire. The data collected were subjected to content analysis. The results indicate that nurses consider important to the men’s health policy, but there are still weak conditions for implementing this policy, in particular, knowledge, encouragement and planning of specific actions for the man.