scholarly journals FAMILY HEALTH SUPPORT CENTER: AN INTERSECTION BETWEEN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HEALTH CARE

Author(s):  
Carine Vendruscolo ◽  
Fabiane Ferraz ◽  
Charles Dalcanale Tesser ◽  
Letícia de Lima Trindade

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the space in which the Family Health Support Center is structured in the services and how it works within the scope of the Unified Health System. Method: a conceptual study based on partial results of a multicenter, descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach, carried out in 2017, in the State of Santa Catarina, with managers and professionals from the Family Health Support Center. Content thematic analysis was used with the data from semi-structured interviews with professionals and individual interviews with managers, totalling 18 participants. Results: the professionals of the Family Health Support Center are identified as specialists who work in or close interaction with Primary Health Care, in the context of matrix support, in order to assist in the planning of the Health Care Network, which strengthens the general practice in Family Health. In addition to primary health care, they can act in intercessory spaces and perform secondary health care; set forth possibilities for intervention and enhance inter-sectoriality and co-responsibility. Conclusion: the Family Health Support Center was recognized as an important articulator of interdisciplinarity in health work, cabable of promoting comprehensive and intersectoral care, in addition to its initial proposal of supporting the Family Health Strategy, which could help in the coordination and fulfillment of secondary health care in the Brazilian Unified Health Care System, thus being an intersecting space between primary and secondary health care.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-101
Author(s):  
Minéia da Costa Figueiredo ◽  
Fabiana Lopes de Paula

Este artigo irá abordar a vivência em uma unidade de Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF) no município de Canto do Buriti-PI sobre os aspectos relacionados ao processo de matriciamento e a gestão do cuidado. A descrição será feita a partir da análise da gestão do cuidado e articulações com o Núcleo de Apoio à Saúde da Família (NASF) e suas ações de apoio matricial desenvolvidas na unidade. O NASF tem fundamental importância na resolução de casos mais complexos e na efetivação de cuidado integral, bem como para a assistência humanizada aos usuários na Atenção Primária à Saúde. O relato traz como contribuição a análise do processo de trabalho entre eSF e NASF, com uma visão que traz subsídios para a reflexão; tendo a intenção de cooperar para o aperfeiçoamento, progresso das ações na APS e a concretização das políticas públicas. Palavras-chave: Atenção Primária à Saúde; Estratégia Saúde da Família; Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente; Integralidade em Saúde; Sistema Único de Saúde.   Abstract This article will address the experience in a Family Health Strategy (ESF) unit in the city of Canto do Buriti-PI on aspects related to the matrix support process and care management. The description will be made from the analysis of care management and articulations with the Family Health Support Center (NASF) and its matrix support actions developed in the unit. The NASF is of fundamental importance in solving more complex cases and in providing comprehensive care, as well as in providing humanized assistance to users in Primary Health Care. The report contributes to the analysis of the work process between eSF and NASF, with a a vision that supports reflection; with the intention of cooperating for the improvement, progress of actions in the PHC and the implementation of public policies. Keywords: Primary Health Care; Family Health Strategy; Patient Care Team; Integrality in Health; Unified Health System.


2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 714-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Rabelo Flôr ◽  
Cláudia Di Lorenzo Oliveira ◽  
Clareci Silva Cardoso ◽  
Cleonice Ferreira Rabelo ◽  
Bernardo Luis Gontijo ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The Family Health Strategy (FHS) should be first-contact care in the Brazilian Health System. However, Primary Health Care (PHC) still encompasses two models: the FHS and the traditional health care facilities. The expansion of the FHS has been slow and heterogeneous in many cities, rendering a comparative evaluation of key quality-related elements of PHC models crucial. Objective: To compare the performance of PHC models as perceived by health professionals. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving managers and health professionals from PHC of a medium-size city in South-eastern Brazil. Data were collected by applying the Primary Care Assessment Tool. The performance was estimated through primary health care indexes (general and partial PHCI by attributes). Univariate polytomous logistic regression was performed to compare care model performances according to their attributes. Strength of association was estimated by odds ratio with 95% confidence interval. Results: Three managers and 81 health professionals participated in the study. The FHS had a better index rating than the traditional care model for general PHCI and for the attributes longitudinality, comprehensiveness, family focus and professional level. Conclusion: Although the FHS attained higher scores compared to the traditional model, it has not yet achieved the performance expected. This scenario points to the need for increased FHS cover and quality improvements at the existing units.


2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Carvalho Rodrigues ◽  
Alice Maria Correia Pequeno ◽  
Antonio Germane Alves Pinto ◽  
Cleide Carneiro ◽  
Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa Machado ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the understanding of the professionals working on the Family Health Support by about permanent education and matrix support in the daily routine of primary health care. Methods: Descriptive research with a qualitative approach. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with the participation of 19 professionals from different backgrounds. The results were organized based on Thematic Content Analysis. Results: Thematic categories emerged from the analysis: Permanent Health Education: knowledge and daily activities; Matrix support as a premise of Permanent Health Education; The principle of integrality as the foundation of the supporting teams; Conditions of praxis in the promotion of Permanent Health Education. Final Considerations: The study evidenced that professionals experience their routines within the service and that the sharing of knowledge to transform the reality of users and the territory is based on matrix support and integrality. However, they face structural difficulties in carrying out actions.


2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 979-987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Albino da Silva ◽  
Tamara Cristina Baitelo ◽  
Lislaine Aparecida Fracolli

Objective: to evaluate the attributes of primary health care as for access; longitudinality; comprehensiveness; coordination; family counseling and community counseling in the Family Health Strategy, triangulating and comparing the views of stakeholders involved in the care process.Method: evaluative research with a quantitative approach and cross-sectional design. Data collected using the Primary Care Assessment Tool for interviews with 527 adult clients, 34 health professionals, and 330 parents of children up to two years old, related to 33 family health teams, in eleven municipalities. Analysis conducted in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software, with a confidence interval of 95% and error of 0.1.Results: the three groups assessed the first contact access - accessibility with low scores. Professionals evaluated with a high score the other attributes. Clients assigned low score evaluations for the attributes: community counseling; family counseling; comprehensiveness - services rendered; comprehensiveness - available services.Conclusions: the quality of performance self-reported by the professionals of the Family Health Strategy is not perceived or valued by clients, and the actions and services may have been developed inappropriately or insufficiently to be apprehended by the experience of clients.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 607
Author(s):  
Adriano Trigolo Pahim ◽  
Maria Fernanda Pereira Gomes ◽  
Lislaine Aparecida Fracolli

RESUMOObjetivo: avaliar sob a ótica dos cuidadores de crianças menores de dois anos e usuários adultos se os atributos essenciais e derivados da atenção primária à saúde estavam presentes e como estavam sendo operacionalizados na Estratégia Saúde da Família. Método: estudo quantitativo, descritivo e transversal realizado em três municípios da região de Presidente Prudente, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Utilizou-se o instrumento de avaliação da atenção primária à saúde (PCATool) na versão criança e adulto, em que 176 cuidadores de crianças menores de dois anos e 181 adultos usuários participaram da pesquisa. Resultados: os atributos da atenção primária à saúde estavam presentes na Estratégia Saúde da Família da região; porém, alguns atributos como Coordenação – Integração de Cuidados, Acesso de Primeiro Contato – Acessibilidade e Orientação Familiar precisavam melhorar sua operacionalização. Conclusão: os atributos da atenção primária à saúde devem estar adequadamente incorporados à prática dos profissionais da saúde por meio da capacitação e valorização das ações que caracterizam a Estratégia Saúde da Família como modelo com foco na família. Descritores: Avaliação em Saúde; Estratégia Saúde da Família; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Saúde Pública; Saúde da Criança; Saúde do Adulto. ABSTRACT Objective: to assess whether the essential attributes and derivatives of primary health care were present and how they were being implemented in the Family Health Strategy from the point of view of caregivers of children under two years of age and adult users. Method: quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study conducted in three municipalities of the region of Presidente Prudente, State of São Paulo, Brazil. We used the child and adult versions of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool), and 176 caregivers of children under two years of age and 181 adult users participated in the research. Results: the attributes of primary health care were present in the Family Health Strategy in the region; however, some attributes, such as healthcare coordination-integration, access to initial contact–accessibility, and family guidance needed to have their implementation improved. Conclusion: the attributes of primary health care should be properly incorporated into the practice of health professionals through training and actions that characterize the Family Health Strategy as a model with a focus on the family. Descritoprs: Health Assessment; Family Health Strategy; Primary Health Care; Public Health; Child Health; Adult Health.                                                            RESUMEN Objetivo: evaluar bajo la óptica de los cuidadores de niños menores de dos años y adultos usuarios si los atributos esenciales y derivados de la atención primaria de salud estaban presentes y cómo estaban siendo puestos en marcha en la Estrategia Salud de la Familia. Método: estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo y transversal realizado en tres municipios de la región de Presidente Prudente, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Se usaron las versiones niño y adulto del Instrumento de Evaluación de la Atención Primaria (PCATool) y 176 cuidadores de niños menores de dos años y 181 adultos participaron en la investigación. Resultados: los atributos de la atención primaria de salud estaban presentes en la Estrategia Salud de la Familia en la región; sin embargo, algunos atributos tales como coordinación-integración de los cuidados, acceso a primer contacto–accesibilidad y asesoramiento familiar necesitaban mejorar su puesta en marcha. Conclusión: los atributos de la atención primaria de salud deben ser debidamente incorporados a la práctica de profesionales de la salud a través de capacitación y desarrollo de acciones que caracterizan la Estrategia Salud de la Familia como un modelo con enfoque en la familia. Descriptores: Evaluación De La Salud; Estrategia Salud de la Familia; Atención Primaria de Salud; Salud Pública; Salud Del Niño; Salud del Adulto.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-109
Author(s):  
Lucas Gaspar Ribeiro ◽  
Daiane Marcondes

Um marco para a saúde no Brasil foi a implantação do Programa Saúde da Família (PSF) em 1994, com a reorientação das práticas assistenciais pelos princípios doutrinários e organizacionais do Sistema Único de Saúde. Esse sistema também oferta as práticas integrativas e complementares, abordando o indivíduo na sua multidimensionalidade, estimulando os mecanismos naturais de cura. Elas foram inseridas como política pública em 2006, no mesmo ano que o PSF foi modificado para estratégia. Ambas possuem relevantes afinidades e pontos que fortalecem o cuidado. O objetivo desse artigo é apresentar essa aproximação teórico-prática através de uma revisão narrativa, encontrando diversas premissas e ferramentas de cuidado compartilhados pela abordagem da Atenção Primária à Saúde (APS) e pelas práticas integrativas e complementares, além das práticas contribuindo para a desmedicalização, acesso e resolutividade da APS com o trabalho interprofissional, individualmente e coletivamente.       Palavras-chave: atenção primária à saúde, práticas integrativas e complementares, estratégia saúde da família, políticas públicas em saúde, sistema único de saúde.   Abstract A milestone for health in Brazil was the implementation of the Programa Saúde da Família (PSF) in 1994, with the reorientation of care practices based on doctrinal and organizational principles of the Unified Health System. This system also offers integrative and complementary practices, addressing the individual in its multidimensionality, stimulating the natural healing mechanisms. They were inserted as public policy in 2006, at the same year that the PSF was changed to strategy. Both contain affinities and points that strengthen care. The objective of the article is to present this theoretical-practical approach of a narrative review, finding several premisse and tools of care shared by the approach of Primary Health Care (PHC) and by integrative and complementary practices, in addition to the practices contributing to demedicalization, access and resolution of PHC with interprofessional work, individually and collective Keywords: primary health care, integrative and complementary practices, family health strategy, public health policy, unified health system.


Author(s):  
Rosimara Oliveira Queiroz ◽  
Márcia Moroskoski ◽  
Bianca Machado Cruz Shibukawa ◽  
Roberta Tognollo Borotta Uema ◽  
Rosana Rosseto de Oliveira ◽  
...  

Objective: to evaluate family and community guidance in adolescence, within the scope of Primary Health Care. Method: an evaluative and descriptive study with a quantitative approach, developed through the application of the Primary Care Assessment Instrument (PCATool), with 70 professionals from the Family Health Strategy and 140 adolescents from the widerange areas. Data collection took place in Basic Health Units and in the adolescents’ homes in a municipality of southern Brazil, from May to September 2019. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics using ANOVA and Tukey’s test, performed using the R Studio software. Results: there was divergence in the assessment of the attributes of family and community guidance between users and responsible professionals, showing weaknesses in the communication process and in the formation of the care bond in this reality, with impacts on quality of care. Conclusion: there was a need for continued assessment of the care practice in primary health care, as well as for permanent education with a focus on increasing qualification of care for adolescents.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayra Romélia Leite Garcia ◽  
Daniel Souza Sacramento ◽  
Hadelândia Milon de Oliveira ◽  
Maria Jacirema Ferreira Gonçalves

Abstract Objective: To identify if nurses' home visits recorded by the family health strategy are proportional to the registered population and the population covered by the family health team, and its relationship with the rate of hospitalization for conditions sensitive to primary health care. Method: Secondary data were gathered from the Information Systems of Primary Care and Hospitalization regarding potential population coverage, number of visits done, hospitalizations for diseases sensitive to primary health care. An exploratory analysis was performed with data grouping for triennium (2010-2012 and 2013-2015) and assignment of scores for each variable, creating the classification strata in: low, medium and high. Results: It was identified that the number of registered home visits does not meet the estimated population coverage as well as does not impact on the admissions sensitive to primary health care. Conclusion and implications for practice: Even with high coverage of the family health strategy, home visits are not the main focus of nurses yet. Home visits should be used as a tool for disease prevention and health promotion, which may explain the non-reduction of hospitalizations sensitive to primary health care.


2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 1063-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marciane Kessler ◽  
Suzinara Beatriz Soares de Lima ◽  
Teresinha Heck Weiller ◽  
Luís Felipe Dias Lopes ◽  
Lucimare Ferraz ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the attribute longitudinality in different models of assistance in Primary Health Care and observe its association with demographic, socioeconomic and health care characteristics. Method: a cross-sectional study, carried out in 2015 with 1076 adult users of primary care services in the 32 cities of the 4th Regional Health Care Core of Rio Grande do Sul State. The Primary Care Assessment Tool was used with definition of low (<6.6) or high (≥6.6) score for longitudinality. The association with independent variables was observed through the Poisson regression. Results: the attribute was better assessed in the Family Health Strategy and associate with age, housing health region and care model. Conclusion: the study points out the Family Health Strategy as a promoter of longitudinal care, and so, it suggests the expansion of this assistance model coverage for quality improvement in health care.


2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 835-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dixis FIGUEROA PEDRAZA ◽  
Iná da Silva SANTOS

ABSTRACT Objective To describe the profile and performance of nutritionists in Primary Health Care. Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out, and all nutritionists in two municipalities of Paraíba, Brazil, were interviewed. Information was collected through structured interviews on demographic characteristics, professional qualification, development of food and nutrition activities, knowledge and use of essential bibliography for the work in Primary Care. Results In one municipality there were 28 teams of the Family Health Strategy and in the other, nineteen teams. In all, nineteen nutritionists were interviewed, fourteen of whom were working in the health teams and five were working exclusively in the Family Health Support Centers. All but one were women and the majority were between 20 and 39 years; the majority (n=10) had no graduate training. Nutritionists from the basic health teams developed more public health nutrition actions, such as defining nutritional care protocols and vitamin A and iron supplementation than those from the Family Health Support Centers (11 versus 1; and 13 versus 1, respectively). About half were satisfied with work in general, and dissatisfaction was related to deficiencies in the availability and quality of anthropometric equipment, physical structure and material. Conclusion Nutritionists work in food and nutrition actions in collective health, emphasizing the importance of qualification and practices that better combine the programmatic agenda of this area with Primary Care.


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