title: Hospitalizations for cardiovascular diseases and the coverage by the family health strategy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to verify the correlation between the rates of hospitalization for primary care-sensitive cardiovascular diseases and the coverage by the Family Health Strategy of residents of the State of Paraná, by regional health divisions, from 2000 to 2011.
  
  
  METHODS
  ecological study developed from data of the Hospital Information System of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and the Department of Primary Care of the Ministry of Health. The rates of hospitalization for cardiovascular diseases were correlated with the annual coverage by the Family Health Strategy using Pearson's and Spearman's correlation coefficients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  there was a strong and negative correlation in the State of Paraná (r=-0.91; p <0.001) and in most regional health divisions, with the highest correlations observed in the Metropolitan and Toledo (r =-0.93; p<0.001) and Paranaguá (r=-0.92, p<0.001) regional health divisions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the results suggest that the increase in the coverage by the Family Health Strategy was an important factor for decrease in the hospitalizations for cardiovascular conditions among residents of the State of Paraná and in most regional health divisions. Other studies should be performed to analyze the factors and causes in regional health divisions where there was no correlation with increase in the Family Health Strategy.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, BR.
authors.forename: Maicon Henrique
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Lentsck
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR, BR.
authors.forename: Thais Aidar de Freitas
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Mathias
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D005192:Family Health; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009313:National Health Programs; D011320:Primary Health Care