scholarly journals MANAGEMENT IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE: DISCOURSES ABOUT THE SEARCH FOR RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMATICS OF TUBERCULOSIS

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassiara Boeno Borges de Oliveira ◽  
Filomena Elaine Paiva Assolini ◽  
Simone Teresinha Protti ◽  
Káren Mendes Jorge de Souza ◽  
Aline Aparecida Monroe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Epidemiological Surveillance ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Surveillance Model

ABSTRACT The study aimed to analyze the discourse of Primary Health Care managers about the search for respiratory symptomatics as an epidemiological surveillance action of tuberculosis. A qualitative study was undertaken, guided by the theoretical and analytical framework of French Discourse Analysis. Data were produced in May 2012 through semi-structured interviews with 14 subjects. Two discursive blocks were produced: marks of power in the execution of the search for respiratory symptomatics; resistance strategies in the search for respiratory symptomatics. Discursive positions were grounded in the traditional management model, making it difficult to incorporate the search for respiratory symptomatics as a participatory action that integrates health staff, managers and the community. Insufficient human resources, workload and rigor in achieving goals favor postures of immobility among the professionals. It is concluded that the managerial work outlined in the health surveillance model encourages the mobilization of practices that contribute to qualify the search for respiratory symptomatics in Primary Health Care.

scholarly journals Pharmaceutical Services in Primary Health Care: are pharmacists and users on the same page?

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 2463-2474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Chama Borges Luz ◽  
Maria Emília Silva de Souza Costa ◽  
Daniela Santana Portes ◽  
Lucas Barbi Costa e Santos ◽  
Samuel Rodrigues Almeida e Sousa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Pharmaceutical Services ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Database Analysis ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Mixed Method Design

Abstract This study investigated structural and organizational characteristics of the Pharmaceutical Services based on Primary Health Care (PHCPS) from the viewpoints of users and pharmacists. A mixed method design was applied, combining one-to-one semi-structured interviews with four pharmacists in charge of five public dispensing facilities and 69 users, with a secondary database analysis. Data were collected from February to August 2014 in Divinópolis, a municipality in Minas Gerais State. PHCPS were similar in terms of general activities performed and staff profile and background. While users were concerned about medicines’ availability and improvements related to the PHCPS’ conveniences and personnel, pharmacists pointed out problems regarding infrastructure to storage. Despite most users had low information on how to use their medicines, no pharmacists declared to participate in medicines dispensing activities. There was a low match between users and pharmacists viewpoints and advantages for concentrate medicines dispensing in a smaller number of facilities were not clear.

Community midwifery: a primary health care approach to care during pregnancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Ailsa Munns
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Liaison Officer ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Comprehensive Primary Health Care ◽  
Torres Strait

Comprehensive primary health care is integral to meaningful client-centred care, with nurses and midwives central to partnership approaches with individuals, families and communities. A primary health model of antenatal care is needed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in rural and remote areas, where complex social determinants of health impact on pregnancy outcomes, early years and lifelong health. Staff experiences from a community midwifery-led antenatal program in a remote Western Australian setting were explored, with the aim of investigating program impacts from health service providers’ perspectives. Interviews with 19 providers, including community midwives, child health nurses, program managers, a liaison officer, doctors and community agency staff, examined elements comprising a culturally safe community antenatal program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, exploring program benefits and challenges. Thematic analysis derived five themes: Organisational and Accessibility Factors; Culturally Appropriate Support; Staff Availability and Competencies; Collaboration; and Sustainability. The ability of program staff to work in culturally safe partnerships with clients in collaboration with community agencies was essential to building meaningful and sustainable antenatal strategies. Midwifery primary health care competencies were viewed as a strong enabling factor, with potential to reduce health disparities in accordance with Australian Government and research recommendations.

scholarly journals Reasons for students’ poor clinical competencies in the Primary Health Care: Clinical nursing, diagnosis treatment and care programme

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nomasonto B. Magobe ◽  
Sonya Beukes ◽  
Ann Müller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Clinical Competencies ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Comprehensive Primary Health Care

‘No member of [health] staff should undertake tasks unless they are competent to do so’ is stated in the Comprehensive Primary Health Care Service Package for South Africa (Department of Health 2001)document. In South Africa, primary clinical nurses (PCNs), traditionally known as primary health care nurses (PHCNs), function as ‘frontline providers’ of clinical primary health care (PHC) services within public PHC facilities, which is their extended role. This extended role of registered nurses(set out in section 38A of the Nursing Act 50 of 1978, as amended) demands high clinical competency training by nursing schools and universities.The objectives of the study were to explore and describe the perceptions of both clinical instructors and students, in terms of the reasons for poor clinical competencies. Results established that two main challenges contributed to students’ poor clinical competencies: challenges within the PHC clinical field and challenges within the learning programme (University).OpsommingDie primêre kliniese verpleegkundiges, tradisioneel bekend as primêre gesondheidsorg verpleegkundiges, funksioneer in Suid-Afrika as eerste-linie verskaffers van kliniese primêre gesondheidsorg (PGS) dienste binne die publieke PGS fasiliteite. Dit is hulle uitgebreide rol. Hierdie uitgebreide rol van die verpleegkundige (soos deur Wet op Verpleging,No 50 van 1978, artikel 38A voorgeskryf), vereis opleiding in kliniese vaardighede van hoë gehalte deur verpleegskole en universiteite.Die doelwitte van die navorsing was om die persepsies van beide kliniese dosente en leerders,met betrekking tot die redes vir swak kliniese vaardighede, repektiewelik te verken en te beskryf.Twee temas is deur die resultate as uitdagings (hoof redes) vir die swak vaardighede van leerders aangetoon, naamlik uitdagings in die PGS kliniese praktyk en die uitdagings in die leerprogram (universiteit).

scholarly journals Modeling of Food and Nutrition Surveillance in Primary Health Care

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santuzza Arreguy Silva VITORINO ◽  
Marly Marques da CRUZ ◽  
Denise Cavalcante de BARROS
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Logic Model ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Care System

ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the modeling stages of food and nutrition surveillance in the Primary Health Care of the Unified Health Care System, considering its activities, objectives, and goals Methods: Document analysis and semi-structured interviews were used for identifying the components, describe the intervention, and identify potential assessment users. Results: The results include identification of the objectives and goals of the intervention, the required inputs, activities, and expected effects. The intervention was then modeled based on these data. The use of the theoretical logic model optimizes times, resources, definition of the indicators that require monitoring, and the aspects that require assessment, identifying more clearly the contribution of the intervention to the results Conclusion: Modeling enabled the description of food and nutrition surveillance based on its components and may guide the development of viable plans to monitor food and nutrition surveillance actions so that modeling can be established as a local intersectoral planning instrument.

Health Worker Perceptions of the Integration of Leprosy Control Services at the Primary Health Care Level in Ibadan, Nigeria

2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluseyi R. Olaseinde ◽  
William R. Brieger
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Health Worker ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Basic Training ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Service Training ◽  
Leprosy Control

A goal of both the World Health Organization and the Nigerian National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control (TBL) Program is to integrate leprosy control services into the front line primary health care service system. Traditionally, leprosy services had been handled by one local government officer with little involvement of other health staff, and this limited access and timeliness of services for leprosy patients. Even after the national TBL program was implemented, integration has not been achieved, and this study of 203 front line health workers in the five local government areas that comprise the Ibadan metropolitan area of Oyo State, Nigeria sought to determine the role of health worker knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy in fostering or inhibiting leprosy service integration. Leprosy knowledge scores were positively associated with years in service, having lectures on leprosy during basic training, and having attended in-service training (IST) on leprosy. Among the cadres interviewed, Environmental Health Officers (EHOs), who had traditionally managed leprosy services prior to the move for integrated services, had the highest scores. EHOs and those who had leprosy lectures during basic training also had better attitudes toward leprosy than their counterparts. Male health staff and those who had leprosy lectures during basic training also had higher attitude scores concerning integrating leprosy control services with primary care. Finally, the only factor associated with perceived self-efficacy to perform leprosy control services was cadre. Ironically, Community Health Extension workers, who have had little in the way of experience with and training in leprosy control, believed they could handle these responsibilities better than other cadres. The influence of basic and in-service training on enhancing leprosy control knowledge and attitudes is recognized and enhancement of curricula for all cadres on leprosy issues is recommended.

scholarly journals Practices in primary health care oriented toward the harmful consumption of drugs

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (spe) ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Heloisa da Veiga Coelho ◽  
Cássia Baldini Soares
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Functionalist Approach

Objective To analyze the practices of primary care focused on the harmful consumption of drugs. Method This is a qualitative study, developed with a dialectical-critical approach. Data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews with 10 employees of a basic health unit (UBS). Results The demands are not accepted, and if they go beyond the barriers shaped by the historical absence of health care practices for drug users and moralistic and preconceived ideologies, they are not reinterpreted as health needs; practices that meet these demands and go beyond the barriers are poor; the functionalist approach, which explains drug use as a disease and considers drug users as deviants, supports the few existing practices. Conclusion primary health care is mistakenly focused on addiction; it lacks structural elements of the production process in health and internal dynamics of the working processes that would foster the development of collective practices.

scholarly journals Caring for refugees in general practice: perspectives from the coalface

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Farley ◽  
Deborah Askew ◽  
Margaret Kay
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Practice ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Refugee Health ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Primary Health

This qualitative research project explored the experiences of primary health care providers working with newly arrived refugees in Brisbane. Data from 36 participants (20 general practitioners, five practice nurses and 11 administrative staff) involved in five focus groups and four semi-structured interviews were analysed. The results indicated that despite difficulties, providers are committed and enthusiastic about working with refugees. The flexibility of the general practice setting enables innovative approaches. The establishment of a specialised refugee health service in Brisbane has improved providers’ capacity to deliver refugee health care. However, most practices continue to feel isolated as they search for solutions, and the need for greater supports and a more coordinated approach to care were emphasised. The themes of communication, knowledge and practice and health care systems encapsulated the factors that influence health care providers’ ability to care for refugees and provide a framework for improving available supports. Australian primary health care is currently undergoing great change, which provides an opportunity to make significant gains in the provision of care for refugees and other minority groups within our community. As health care reforms are implemented it is essential that they are responsive to the expressed needs of health care providers working in these areas.

scholarly journals CARE FOR THE PERSON WHO LIVES WITH HIV/AIDS IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Daiane Colaço ◽  
Betina Hörner Schlindwein Meirelles ◽  
Ivonete Teresinha Schülter Buss Heidemann ◽  
Mariana Vieira Villarinho
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the process of caring for the person with HIV/AIDS in the Primary Health Care of a capital in southern Brazil. Method: qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, carried out in the Health Centers of this city, from March to August 2015. Sixteen nurses participated through semi-structured interviews, which were organized and codified with the help of the software QSR Nvivo®, version 10. Afterwards, the data were analyzed through comparative analysis. Results: results were described in two categories: “The inter-subjective encounter given the vulnerability to HIV/AIDS”, and, “Accepting needs and formulating actions given the reality”. Potentialities and weaknesses were evidenced through these categories, such as: reception, long-term care, active search, home visits, and, in return, lacking a formal flow of care for people living with HIV/ AIDS, lack of HIV/AIDS line of care and medical/centered care. Conclusion: the need to implement HIV/AIDS management in primary care was verified, as well as to overcome the fragilities in this care with the aid of implementing a formal care flow, establishing managerial processes and permanent education for the professionals. Then, expanding and qualifying care in HIV/AIDS, with important contributions of the nurse in the perspective of integral care in the process of living with HIV/AIDS.

scholarly journals CARE OF CHILDREN WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION IN PRIMARY CARE: CHALLENGES TO THE HEALTHCARE MODEL

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 1009-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elysângela Dittz Duarte ◽  
Kênia Lara Silva ◽  
Tatiana Silva Tavares ◽  
Corina Lemos Jamal Nishimoto ◽  
Paloma Morais Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Healthcare Model ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
The City ◽  
Children With Chronic Conditions

ABSTRACT This is a qualitative study aiming to analyze the healthcare model for children with chronic conditions in Primary Health Care. The study subjects were nurses, nurse technicians and auxiliary nurses working in 16 basic health units in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and later analyzed from the critical perspective, seeking to identify the common themes in the empirical material. Data revealed how primary health care professionals identified and reached children with chronic conditions, as well as how they presented the care actions performed. However, the development of a model of care for children with chronic conditions in primary health that considers their specific health needs constitutes a challenge.

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