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Objective: to analyze the perception of professionals from Family Health Teams about integrality in daily care. Method: qualitative study carried out in four Health Strategy units. Data collection was performed through a focus group with professionals from different professional categories and counted with guiding questions about the understanding of integrality, as it is developed, the potentialities and the difficulties in its implementation. Data were analyzed through thematic content analysis. Results: two themes emerged: Basic Care Integrality clothed with the complexity and Challenges of integrality due to intersectoral and health care levels disarticulation. Conclusion: given the conceptual breadth of integrality, the professionals from Family Health Teams understand that this is of great complexity and face important challenges in its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to propose an intervention proposal to systematize the child health care process in the first year of life by the Family Health Strategy Teams in the city of Fortaleza- Ceará. Methodology: this is an intervention plan carried out at the Primary Health Care Unit Maria José Turbay Barreira, from November 2018 to March 2019. Results: the activity took place with the following steps: explanatory moment, with the diagnosis situational and team identification of problems; normative moment, to determine the prioritization of problems, critical points and the capacity to cope; at the strategic moment it was identified where to intervene to achieve the expected results, and the tactical-operational moment, the implementation of the intervention proposals. As a result, improvements were observed in the identification and updating of children's records, strategies for rescuing children from uncovered areas; better access to information on childbirth and the length of stay of puerperal women in the health units' hospital. It is concluded that the intervention plan was very important with regard to the decision of the best child care strategies by health professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: a public health services network in Cali, Colombia, implemented the Family Health Strategy (FHS) for 1000 low-income families. The objective of this study was to identify the effects of individual and contextual variables as determinants in consultations made for children under six years of age, for Acute Diarrheal Disease (ADD), Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI), and dental cavities. Methods: the household environment was the unit of analysis and the mother was the information source. A multivariate multilevel linear regression analysis was performed to assess how contextual and individual variables determine medical care. The response variable was the number of consultations provided to children by the public health network. The effects of fixed and random variables were estimated to assess the variation in the number of consultations across census tracts. Results: in the first-level explained variance, age contributed a 6.3% in ADD consultations, and the child’s sex contributed 5.3%, while having a pet at home contributed 9% in the second-level explained variance. In ARI consultations, the parents’ educational level contributed 3.5%, the materials used for home roofs contributed 20.7% and the population type 33%, for a total contribution of 57.2%. The child’s age explained 9.4% in dental cavity consultations, while overcrowding and tobacco use at home accounted for 53% of variability at the second level. Conclusions: the social and environmental determinants of each household accounted for over 50% of the variability in medical consultations provided to children under the age of six.

Abstract Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with the medication consumption among users registered in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) of Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Method: The population was constituted of all adult residents in the area covered by the FHS. The Poisson regression model with robust variance was used to the statistical analysis. Results: There were included 553 participants, of which 72% were women. The mean age was 48 years. The prevalence of medication consumption was about 74.9% (n = 414). The most consumed class medication was drugs that act on the cardiovascular system (42.2%). The factors associated with medication consumption were female gender (PR = 1.21; CI95%: 1.07 - 1.38), diagnosed morbidity (PR = 1.83; CI95%: 1.61 - 2.08) and be bedridden in the last month (PR = 1.14; 95% CI95%: 1.02 - 1.26). Moreover, 72.7% of the interviewees obtained the medicines in public pharmacies. Conclusion and implications for practice: Women, people diagnosed with morbidities and those participants who were bedridden during the last month showed the highest levels of drug consumption. Nursing professionals in promoting the rational use of medications can contribute to integral care to FHS users.

ABSTRACT Objective: Estimate the prevalence of benzodiazepine use by adult women at a Family Health Unit and identify the risk factors associated with this usage. Method: Quantitative cross-sectional study that employed secondary data developed at a Family Health Unit in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. We collected the data from the following sources: medical charts, registration forms, and the archive of prescriptions from the pharmacy at the referred health unit. We employed the chi-squared, Student’s t, and Mann-Whitney tests, as well as logistic regression analysis. Results: We identified 81 benzodiazepine users amongst 1,094 adult women (7.4%). Regarding the risk factors, the comparison between the groups of benzodiazepine users (n = 64) and non-users (n = 70) showed that having a chronic disease and using other psychotropic drugs were significantly associated with the use of benzodiazepines. Conclusion: The prevalence found was lower than the described in previous studies performed in Primary Health Units. The group that must receive greater attention regarding the consumption of benzodiazepines is that of middle-aged women or older, with low education levels, and chronic illnesses.

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the work process of the Family Health Support Center and identify the repercussions on professionals’ quality of life at work. Method: A descriptive-exploratory qualitative case study conducted with workers from Family Health Support Centers. The content analysis technique was used to analyze the resulting empirical material in the light of the theoretical reference of Work Psychodynamics. Results: Twenty workers participated in the focus groups. This study discusses the category of ‘suffering’ by the chosen theoretical perspective, which derives from interpersonal relationships and teamwork, the feeling of not belonging, lack of infrastructure for work, violence and vulnerability present in the territory. Conclusion: Group union and collaborative integration among workers can be strategies for the minimization of suffering at work in the context of the Family Health Strategy.

Resumo Objetivo: descrever a frequência e os motivos das internações por condições sensíveis à atenção primária à saúde (ICSAP) ocorridas em Rondônia, Brasil, entre 2012 e 2016, e analisar sua relação com a evolução da cobertura da Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF). Métodos: estudo descritivo, com dados secundários do Sistema de Informações Hospitalares do Sistema Único de Saúde. Resultados: no período do estudo, foram autorizadas 133.958 ICSAP, correspondendo a uma taxa de 75 internações/1.000 hab.; registrou-se incremento anual paralelo da cobertura da ESF e tendência levemente decrescente das ICSAP autorizadas, embora não estatisticamente significante; em 2012, a frequência de ICSAP foi de 20,7% entre todas as hospitalizações ocorridas no estado, enquanto em 2016, esse indicador declinou para 16,7%. Conclusão: foi alta a frequência de ICSAP em Rondônia entre 2012 e 2016; embora tenha havido incremento na cobertura de ESF no mesmo período, esse aumento não foi acompanhado de mudança significativa na frequência de ICSAP registrada no estado.

Objective: To evaluate the presence and extent of attributes of Primary Health Care presented by health professionals. Methodology: Cross-sectional study conducted with 24 professionals from family health units in the city of Palmas, Tocantins. Results: Participants evaluated the attributes with high scores, except for First Contact Access and Community Guidance. Conclusion: Medical professionals, nurses and dentists perceive the attention offered positively, contributing to the strengthening of primary care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Foundation: the comprehensive visit to the family contributes achieving the actions and the specific functions declared in the Program of the Family Doctor and Nurse in Cuba. It must be executed by basic health teams in each of the doctor's offices. Objective: to propose a methodological guide for the comprehensive visit to the family by the members of the basic health team. Methods: this research responds to a development project and was carried out from March to September 2018. The nominal group technique was applied with the participation of experts (postgraduate methodologists from different areas and municipalities of the province) following the established stages: list preparation, list presentation, voting and assessment and debate of the results achieved with the contribution of all the members of the group. The inclusion of individual trials was achieved until arriving to a consensus in the proposals. Results: the guide provides the steps to follow in the comprehensive visit to the family, among which stand out: characteristics, state of health, material, hygienic-sanitary and epidemiological conditions, family scheme, family functioning, etc., including a joint action doctor-family plan, to solve the problems detected. Conclusion: the methodological guide for developing the comprehensive visit to the family by the basic team members contributes to the achievement of main basic action with the required quality, fulfilling the proposed objectives in the Program of the Family Doctor and Nurse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to know the actions performed at home for the prevention of pressure injuries in the Family Health Strategy. Method: descriptive and qualitative research directed at the population at risk for the development of pressure injury (PI) in the city of Crato, Ceará, Brazil. Data collection was performed through the Braden scale and semi-structured interview, from March to May 2018. The ethical aspects involved in the research were respected. Results: the results obtained were divided into two categories: 1-analysis of the risk of developing PI from the Braden scale; 2-perception of home patients and caregivers about actions for the prevention of PI in the Family Health Strategy. From this, two subcategories emerged: a) perception of home patients and caregivers about PI; b) prevention measures for PI performed by patients and caregivers. Conclusion: the research participants have knowledge about PI based on daily experiences, effectively developing actions for injury prevention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To describe nurses' actions for health promotion and disease prevention. Methodology: Exploratory, descriptive, and transversal study, using a qualitative approach, carried out with 12 nurses from the family health strategies of a city in the state of Minas Gerais. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews and were submitted to thematic analysis. Results: The themes identified were: vision of nurses on health promotion and their intervention strategies; Knowledge of nurses regarding the prevention of diseases and the interventions carried out for this purpose. Conclusion: Results showed the confusion of some nurses in distinguishing health promotion and disease prevention. They also face challenges in the daily work that can entail implications for the practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analyze the difficulties experienced by the Community Health Agents in their daily life in the realization of health education in Primary Care. Methodology: Descriptive research, of a qualitative nature, based on the conceptual frameworks of Michel Pêcheux's discourse analysis. Results: We identified factors that generated difficulties in the daily life of health education practices and, consequently, a restriction on the actions performed by the agents. Discussion: The main difficulties were: public resistance to participate in actions; influences of the biomedical model; lack of management support and the need to use bargaining as a method of encouraging the population to participate in health education activities. Conclusion: It is important to emphasize the construction of care in order to overcome the obstacles of the work routine in relation to health education, since it is a possibility of social empowerment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the strategies of work management adopted at the Fundação Estatal Saúde da Família (State Health Family Foundation) (FESF-SUS), which was created to hire and allocate physicians in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The research aims to contribute to the debate about the difficulties of hiring and retaining physicians to work in the public policy promoting family health "Estratégia Saúde da Família" (ESF). The research consisted of a case study adopting several methodological strategies, with emphasis on documentary analysis. The findings show that one solution to hire and retain physicians is the creation of an inter-municipal career. The proposed work management of the Foundation included aspects such as variable compensation, worker mobility between municipalities, and factors associated with the provision of physicians to work in public health. The complexity of this proposal is faced with the lack of experience in operating this form of work management, as well as with the structural and institutional issues that historically marked the work management in the municipalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To evaluate the Conversation Map as a teaching strategy for the development of self-care for diabetic people. Methodology: Descriptive correlational study with quantitative approach. Twenty users participated in the educational program. Results: The period of execution of the program was eight weeks. The assessment of educational actions was tested by the application of the Diabetes Self-Care Activity Questionnaire (DSCAQ), whose scores were analyzed at the beginning and at the end of the program. The "dryness" variable, related to the characteristics of the skin and the variables "Specific diet (sweets)", "physical activity", "capillary glycemia" and "foot care" were statistically significant (p <0.05). Conclusion: Educational programs are essential for the empowerment of the diabetic person and the change in their behavior regarding self-care. The Conversation Map demonstrated to be adequate for the acquisition of new knowledge and autonomy of the person in glycemic control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective. To evaluate the association between access to mammography and coverage by private health insurance or by the public healthcare system through the Family Health Strategy (FHS). Method. An ecological study was performed with data obtained from the Unified Health System Data Processing Department (DATASUS). Time trends were analyzed using the Prais-Winsten method, having the Brazilian federal units as units of analysis. Multiple linear regression was used to investigate the relationship between the dependent variable -- women aged 50 to 69 years who never had a mammogram -- and the independent variables (coverage by the FHS or private health care and socioeconomic aspects). Results. Acre was the only Brazilian state for which an increasing growth trend in private health care was not observed. Roraima, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, and Paraíba showed a stable trend for FHS coverage, whereas all other federal units had increasing coverage. A significant association was observed between never having had a mammogram at 50 to 69 years of age and the variables mean per capita income and FHS and private health care coverage (R2=0.77; P < 0.001). Conclusion. Unequal access to mammography is a reality in Brazil. Both private health care and the FHS have contributed to improve health care accessibility for Brazilian women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. To assess the performance of primary health care (PHC) in Brazil and its association with the More Doctors Program (Programa Mais Médicos, PMM). Method. This nationwide cross-sectional study used the Primary Care Assessment Tool validated for Brazilian Portuguese (PCATool-Brasil) to determine the achievement of PHC according to user experience associated with three physician categories: Brazilian physicians participating in the PMM, Cuban physicians participating in the PMM, and Brazilian physicians not linked to the PMM. The following PHC scores were calculated: overall PCA score, accessibility (first contact), and longitudinality. The association between PHC scores, physician category, and other user and physician characteristics was investigated using multilevel analysis. Results. The overall PCA score for Brazil was 6.78, and the longitudinality score was 7.43. There was no difference in these scores among the three physician categories. The overall accessibility score was 4.24. A small but significant difference (P < 0.001) in accessibility score was detected among physician categories: 4.43 for Cuban physicians participating in the PMM (CI: 4.32-4.54), 4.08 for Brazilian physicians participating in the PMM(CI: 3.98-4.18), and 4.20 for Brazilian physicians not linked to the PMM (CI: 4.09-4.32). Age, socioeconomic level, presence of chronic diseases, and home visits by physicians positively influenced the overall PCA score on multilevel analysis. Conclusions. The type of physician did not influence the primary care orientation (overall score) of the healthcare system in Brazil. PMM was associated with higher accessibility sores in more socioeconomically vulnerable areas. Multilevel analysis showed that PCH may be strengthened by the reinforcement of essential physician roles (such as home visits) and by improving access for socioeconomically vulnerable, younger populations or those without chronic diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective to know the practice of the Family Clinic in Cuiaba and its relationship with the precepts of the expanded clinic, from the perspective of the service nurses. Method qualitative descriptive research, data collection with semi-structured interviews and results analyzed according to the method of thematic content analysis. Results for nurses working in the service, this assumes a differentiated and innovative proposal, which seeks to correlate with shared management in its three spheres. Although most do not know the Enlarged Clinic term in his speech cited its main principles and its tools. The greatest potential described were related to the Support Center for Health and popular participation, and as challenges, the lack of community health worker, the national health establishment registration and the difficulty of operation due to the profile of the professionals technical level arising from secondary care. Conclusions The clinic has positive aspects that can contribute to the advancement of the profession, to train health professionals and an innovative primary care model. Therefore, it emphasizes the need for implementation of continuing education in order to realize its proposal, and further studies on site.

RESUMO Objetivo: identificar os saberes e práticas do enfermeiro da Estratégia Saúde da Família com relação à participação social na saúde. Método: pesquisa de natureza qualitativa que teve como cenário as Unidades de Saúde da Família de um município de Minas Gerais. Participaram nove enfermeiros, entrevistados individualmente, nos meses de julho e agosto de 2014. Os dados coletados foram analisados segundo a técnica de análise de conteúdo e interpretados à luz da ontologia e pedagogia freireana. Resultados: os depoimentos analisados evidenciaram que os enfermeiros trazem incoerências conceituais e também atitudinais que necessitam ser equalizadas, a fim de que os seus saberes e práticas possam mediar a desafiadora construção da gestão participativa na saúde. Conclusão: sugere-se um incremento na formação do enfermeiro, tanto acadêmica quanto em serviço, no sentido de fortalecer o seu papel político no processo de consolidação da participação social no Sistema Único de Saúde.

Abstract OBJECTIVE To relate the managerial competencies required of nurses with the process of change experienced in the expansion of the Family Health Strategy (FHS). METHOD A qualitative research conducted in primary health care in a southern Brazilian city, through interviews with 32 managerial and clinical nurses. The interviews were processed by IRAMUTEQ software. The resulting classes were examined under five managerial competencies to promote change. RESULTS The four classes obtained from data were: the Family Health Strategy expansion process; confrontations and potentialities; mobilization for the change; innovations in medical and nursing consultations. The classes were related to one or more competencies. CONCLUSION The expansion of the Family Health Strategy requires managerial competencies of implementing and sustaining change, negotiating agreements and commitments, using power and influence ethically and effectively, sponsoring and selling new ideas, and encouraging and promoting innovation.