Knowledge of man"™s health policy and relationsgip to health care

Abstract

Objective: To analyze the knowledge of nurses and managers of primary health care about the National Policy for Integral Attention to Men's Health, as well as its repercussions on health care. Method: This is an integrative review carried out in the SciELO, LILACS and BDENF databases. For the definition of the guiding question, the PICO strategy was used and for the study selection process, the PRISMA flowchart was used. Thus, 10 articles were selected for analysis through the narrative synthesis. Results: It reveals weaknesses in the knowledge of professionals and managers about the policy, negatively influencing the integral attention of men in health services. Conclusion: Health professionals have little knowledge about the policy; and managers of primary health care do not have enough knowledge to implement it, so they do not encourage professionals to be trained to improve the care of men.