Care Technologies for Facing the Interruption of Tuberculosis Treatment

Authors: Coelho KSC*, Merhy EE, Lourenço LC, Vidal AA, Guazzi M, Zuim RCB and Lima CS

DOI: 10.23880/eij-16000226

Volume 6, Issue 1

Abstract

Technological interventions of high material and knowledge density did not prevent tuberculosis from continuing as a public health problem worldwide. In Brazil, treatments for the disease have a high rate of interruption. This article discusses central issues capable of ensuring that treatments are completed without interruption, interrupting the chain of transmission, and decreasing mortality from tuberculosis. A set of care technology tools is presented to understand the causes of treatment interruptions and produce care strategies to face them, through the incorporation of high relational density technologies, which build shared therapeutic projects. The strategies proposed in this article admit that events in relational processes and dialog city have occurred, so that the user-citizen person disappears from the relationship with the health teams, which needs to be reversed.

Keywords: Tuberculosis; Outcome and Process Assessment Health Care; Health Policy

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