Condições de saúde auto-referidas da população masculina

Abstract

The specific focus in the relationship between man and health has been occurring, in the last years, both in academic terms and in scope of health services. For many reasons, it's a challenge to include man's participation in care health. Although there are advances in the field of human health, many questions have to be considered in the care of man with own health. An important point would be how this population evaluates its own state of health, as well as the factors that are associated to this evaluation because it allows us to identify this population profile, which is still not very studied, which may, thus, help in the planning of prevention methods and health promoting, as well as support strategies, which are necessary to a higher reach of these men in terms of health. The objective of this study was to evaluate conditions of self-reported health and the possible factors related of the male population in Belo Horizonte (MG) in 2006 and 2011. This is a longitudinal epidemiological study which proposes to do an analysis of this population in 2006 and 2011 through telephonic survey (VIGITEL 2006 and 2011). The samples were composed of 782 people in 2006 and 836 in 2011 with more than 18 years. The data were processed on a database created through the software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 20.0, which allowed to verify the association between each one of the independent variables with the dependent variable, through the use of qui-square test. There was a meaningful change in the interviewed individuals age, in which the average changed from 41.9 in 2006 to 44.2 years old in 2011; meaningful decrease, from 59.2% to 51.7% (2006 and 2011, respectively), in the alcoholical consume; self reported health condition improvement, increasing from 21.1% (0.18-0.23) to 28.1% (0.24-0.31) the individuals proportion that referred to the health as excellent. These data call our attention to the need for policies and health public actions focused on this population, with emphasis on educational actions, preventive and promotion to the health. Although VIGITEL be an important tool for data collection to encourage the understanding of chronic diseases, including questions relating to economic conditions of the participants would be important to more clearly delineate the factors associated with morbidity in the populations studied.