Modelos de atenção primária à saúde da criança: análise comparada

In the world, a significant number of children still die, before celebrating the fifth birthday, from preventable causes in qualified primary care. Therefore, health care models should be oriented to Primary Health Care and / or structured in accordance with its ordering attributes. Objective: To compare the degree of orientation to the child´s primary health care in basic care units which operate with different models of care. Method: It is a cross-sectional, quantitative and evaluative research in which a total of 1,484 family members and / or caregivers of children under ten years took part. These children were seen in health units which work with different models of care. Data collection was carried out from October 2012 to February 2013 by using the instruments: Primary Care Assessment Tool, Brazil, child version, to evaluate the Primary Care; and the other one covering the families´ socio-demographic and economic data. The analysis was made by means of descriptive statistics with simple frequencies and construction of scores of evaluated attributes, according to the Ministry of Health Manual. To evaluate the most oriented model to Primary Health Care and compare the attributes among the different models, the parametric analysis of variance - associated with Tukey´s multiple comparison test -, and Kruskal-Wallis test - associated with Dunnett´s multiple comparison test - were applied, respectively, both with a 5% significance level. Results: By comparing the models, statistically significant difference was verified in favor of the mixed Basic Health Unit model (p