Atendimento à população masculina na atenção primária de Maracanaú-CE: estudo documental / Assistance to the male population in the primary care of Maracanaú-CE: a documentary study
Descriptive exploratory study of documentary analysis type, with retrospective character, conducted in a Basic Family Health Unit in Maracanaú-CE, which aimed to analyze the nursing care for men in the Family Health Strategy, confronting them with the guidelines proposed in the National Policy for Integral Attention to Men's Health (PNAISH). The data were collected from the nurses' daily productionrecords referring to the period from January to December 2011, which showed that there is no specific day for the care of the malepopulation, and that the predominance of demand for care prevails in the curative perspective. Primary nursing care for men still distances itself from that recommended by the PNAISH. Rethinking issues that permeate the men's health can be propelling for changes that are necessary to trigger other actions alongside men stimulating in them the belonging to the area of promotion, protection and recovery of health, doing this way what was proposed by PNAISH.