Processo de trabalho do agente comunitário de saúde na visita domiciliar às pessoas com doenças crônicas não transmissíveis.

Abstract

The chronic diseases no transmissible (DCNT) they are responsible for the main causes of deaths. The teams of health work with several difficulties in the coping DCNT. ACS is considered the "link" between the individual and the basic unit of health (UBS), and it should be attentive to identify risk situations, to identify with the team of health which you/they are the more frequent chronic diseases in the individual, besides accomplishing orientations. Objective: to describe the process of work of the Community Agent of Health (ACS) in the home visit to the people with Chronic Diseases No Transmissible and to identify the potentialities of the work process that favor the care the people with Chronic Diseases No Transmissible. Method: it is exploratory study of qualitative approach, the collection of data was accomplished with the Community Agents of Health in the municipal district of Picuí-Paraíba. For collection of data the technique of semi-structured interview, the analysis of the recordings was used was accomplished through the analysis of content of Bardin. Results: through the analysis it can identify two categories, process of work of ACS related to the people with Chronic Diseases No Transmissible and potentialities of the accomplished home visit. Conclusion: the work exercised by the community agent of health contributes significantly for attendance the people with Chronic Diseases No Transmissible being developed prevention activities, precocious detection through the tracking, and prevention of offences.