Nursing Epidemiological Approach of Hypertension Management in a Public Health Service from the Northern Region of Portugal.

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological surveillance of a nursing diagnosis is an approach anchored in a post-modern epidemiology focused on a person's health disease responses. Regarding public health priorities, the population where our study occurred had as a priority problem arterial hypertension. Related to this chronic disease, nursing diagnoses about health disease responses in primary healthcare has, as a major focus, Therapeutic Regimen Management. Our aim was to study the nursing diagnosis in this issue from an epidemiological approach. METHODS: A descriptive study from an epidemiological approach was developed, analyzing nursing diagnoses in hypertensive patients. RESULTS: We found 17.7% of undiagnosed patients and better diagnoses in patients with complications than in those without complications. CONCLUSIONS: Nursing records need to be improved in order to promote more robust studies in the post-modern epidemiology for the future.

Technical analysis of the state of DTP vaccine production in Latin America and the Caribbean

This report will also be published in Spanish in the BOSP. Vol. 117(3), September 1994