NON-COMMUNICABLE CHRONIC DISEASES IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH CONTEXT

Abstract

The study aims to conduct a literature survey about chronic noncommunicable diseases in the context of public health. This is an integrative literature review. It was based on data from Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS) and the Nursing Database (BDENF) via the Virtual Health Library (VHL). The guiding question was: "What does the literature address about chronic noncommunicable diseases in the context of public health? The following descriptors were used: "Health care", "Chronic noncommunicable diseases" and "Public Health", as inclusion criteria were considered: full text, Portuguese, Spanish and English language, which portrayed the theme under study, published in the years 2012 to 2022, and as exclusion criteria: duplicate texts, incomplete and that did not focus on the exposed theme. The descriptors were crossed through the Boolean operator "AND" for simultaneous search of the subjects. People who suffer from different chronic diseases have to learn to live with various limitations in their daily lives, since the disease requires adaptation from the patient and family members in different aspects of life, and usually such changes unfold over time. The present study concludes that people with chronic diseases need to have differentiated care in the public health system both through drug therapy and through non-drug conducts that help both in the prevention of these diseases and for patients who need treatment.