Estrategia de prevención comunitaria con base a la efectividad de la hemoglobina glicosilada en adultos mayores con diabetes mellitus

Abstract

Introduction: Promote community prevention strategies based on the effectiveness of glycosylated hemoglobin in health promotion and education to motivate older adults to participate, provide them with opportunities in programs that develop healthy lifestyles, incorporating them to protect the elderly with diabetes mellitus, are necessary to achieve primary health achievements. Objective: To design a community prevention strategy based on the effectiveness of glycosylated hemoglobin in older adults with diabetes mellitus in the San Camilo Subcentre. Methodology: The quantitative method was used, with a positivist approach, in this study the design of documentary research was considered, the source of the data is 40 articles from scientific databases, such as Scopus, PubMed, Dialnet, Redalyc, Scielo, Latindex, for this a data collection instrument is used, a table called the observations matrix. Results: in the developed theoretical systematization it is evidenced that an early comprehensive assessment helps to prevent or delay more comorbidities to avoid risks of cognitive impairment and physical capacity, the results show that 30% of glycosylated hemoglobin contributes to the elaboration of diagnosis and control in a community, the use of the glycosylated hemoglobin test can become an opportunity to determine the predisposition to the disease. Conclusions: The community strategy designed based on the effectiveness of glycosylated hemoglobin in older adults, establishes the work algorithm to modify lifestyles, in the development of future educational-based interventions, where interactive and participatory learning is developed with the social actors present in the community and continuous learning is promoted.