Tuesday 16 August 2016

655. Health space serves population Mire de Tibães

In order to provide citizens with access to basic and primary health care, with the provision of various services, the project Health Area grew implemented by Mire Parish Council Tibães.The intention of the project does not involve the replacement of the health center, but to offer an additional option of proximity to the population, focusing on high competence of professionals who provide services there.We assess the needs in the middle where people are located. Sometimes the simple fact that people enter the health center hinders the expression, because not always verbalize the needs they feel and sometimes the values ​​are changed one bit. We know that some people often change, for example, the value of blood pressure. According to the health profile of the Northern region had to examine factors associated with excess weight, smoking, alcohol consumption, diet and medication regimen, explained Adriana Barbosa, licensed nursing and mentor of the project.In parallel with the work developed with the adult population, the Health Zone also works with children. In the Kindergarten has gone very well. Children take well the program at this time is devoted to oral health. We are teaching how to be cleaning the teeth, what the benefits of proper washing, which foods are good for teeth, which are bad, etc. It is a very playful and interactive component so we can convey the message, said Adriana Barbosa.José Magalhães, president of Mire Parish Council Tibães, explains that the project aims to continuous improvement and the identification of valences that can be integrated into the initiative to contact the population.Initially, the professionals involved in the health space carry out an evaluation of the patients who will dictate its continuity or not this service, depending on the loyalty of the population.

654. Braga will offer 6,000 dental consultations per year

The Braga council approved Monday, Braga project Smiling, which aims to ensure the free access of the poorest people to oral health care. The program will provide 6000 consultations, in partnership with the NGO World Smile, an investment of 200,000 euros. To benefit from this service, users will have to be marked by the Social Action services of the local authority, the Parish Councils and IPSS of the county, as explained by the Braga Municipal Council (CMB) in a statement. Additionally, this action will also cover all children and the elderly in the county, with several actions in the 1st cycle schools, nursing homes and day centers in the county, promoting oral hygiene and the training of technicians and professionals work in these spaces Braga to Smiling will be developed in partnership with the NGO world smile that in nine years of existence, has conducted about 20 projects related to oral health, they were beneficidas more than 170,000 people worldwide . With this partnership, it is expected that more than 5000 children and 500 elderly county benefiting from this action will perform to a total of more than 6,000 consultations per year. This is a pioneer project in which the city of Braga takes health support policies among older; education of the younger population and also a social inclusion policy, with the possibility of greater integration into social and professional level who have no access to oral health care, says the president of CMB, Ricardo Rio, quoted by the same statement.