O perfil dos idosos, prevalência de doenças crônicas não-transmissíveis e o suporte social no município de Sinop-MT: uma análise comparativa do período de 2010 a 2019

Abstract

The Brazilian elderly population has increased every year reflecting the greater longevity of people due mainly to the existence of public health policies that allow better monitoring of the population's health. In this setting, this study aimed to analyze the evolution of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and mental health of the population of the city of Sinop-MT, between 2010 and 2019, in order to demonstrate how the state of Mato Grosso has evolved in this sense from the point of view of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases, sociodemographic and economic profile and social support network to which the elderly population is granted access. In methodological terms, the research included primary and secondary data, the primary ones being obtained from semi-structured interviews with a sample of 15 elderly people; and the secondary ones obtained from the City Hall and other official health agencies. Based on the results achieved, the data were presented in a quantitative and qualitative method and a descriptive analysis of the health context of the elderly in Sinop was carried out. Of the elderly population registered in the Unified Health System in Sinop, and considering the primary data of the interviews, most of the elderly are between 60 and 69 years old and a higher percentage of women can be noticed. As for schooling, most of them studied up to elementary school, having retirement and pension income. Specifically on CNCDs, hypertension and diabetes are among the prevalent ones and with regard to mental illnesses, both in official and primary data, it is noticed that there is low frequency and, in positive cases, depression and anxiety are the prevalent ones, and the pandemic has been an aggravating factor for anxiety, which was observed in the field research. Social support is mainly represented by family members, neighbors and friends with few elderly people attending support centers and community activities in their neighborhoods. It is concluded, therefore, that the elderly in Sinop-MT present characteristics similar to the national and state settings, either from the data of the City Hall or from the interviews, and that health policies are still in an embryonic process with regard to their effective application in the city.