Surveillance to reproductive health in the Family Health Strategy

Objective:  To analyze the practice of reproductive health surveillance in the Family Health Strategy program, in the scenario of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso.

Methods:  An exploratory, qualitative study. We performed participative observation of the practices into the areas of two health teams, from January to June 2012. On the examination of the empiric, content thematic analysis was used.

Results:  Surveillance actions were carried out mostly by Health Community Agents (HCA) through home visits to pregnant and postpartum women, with the purpose of controlling reproductive diseases and promote self-care. Its most advanced feature was the facilitation of access of women to the strategic actions of the local service. The production of information on reproductive health, although systematic, was not used by the workers to guide the local health actions.

Conclusion:  The surveillance practice analyzed proved to be limited, although enlarged compared to the traditional active search for prenatal care and epidemiological surveillance of controlled diseases.

Surveillance; Health Promotion; Reproductive Health; Family Health Program