Abstract
Objective: To demonstrate the needs for effective health promotion in the face of cardiovascular diseases in basic care. Methods: This is a descriptive study, of integrative revision, in which a search of academic productions in periodicals was carried out, emphasizing the confrontation of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD), using the Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS): Cardiovascular Diseases; Basic Care; Risk Factors and Health Promotion. Results: The articles found demonstrated that CVD is among the main causes of death in Brazil and in the world. It is possible to observe that health services face great difficulties in ensuring the quality of life of people in facing this disease, because several determining factors coexist to implement the needs involving an effective public health strategy for the community. Final considerations: The need to fight CVD requires the recognition that this disease needs an effective health management model, and it is sustainable to say that public policies, their programs and trained professionals are of great importance to strengthen measures for the care of people who fall into CVD.