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The pedagogical care in a experience of being hypertensive

The article tries to contribute for popular education area in health, addressing the experience of care lived by people owners of the most frequent heart diseases reaching around 21% of brazilian population; the systemic arterial high pressure. The article is based in researches done with high blood pressure patients of a Primary Health Care Unit from the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. It aims to understand users build comprehension about experience of care from their life experience and culture in a dialogue with health statement conformed by the reality they have been facing in Health System the study uses procedures of qualitative methodology like open interviews and systematic observations. We have adopted as a criterion for the obtained information, relate them by proximity to the specifics goals of this study.

Life-Change Events; Health Care; Hypertension


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