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0392/2019 - Care in Brazil: An exploratory study on the setting and service use in the Brazilian Health System.
Atenção Domiciliar no Brasil: Estudo exploratório sobre a consolidação e uso de serviços no Sistema Único de Saúde.

Author:

• Fabiana Lima Rajão - Rajão, F.L - <fabianarajao@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3882-9992

Co-author(s):

• Mônica Martins - Martins, M. - <martins@ensp.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9962-0618


Abstract:

Changes in demographic and epidemiological profiles, in Brazil and international context, have brought the need of adaptation in the model of health care delivery. In this context, Home Care (HC) emerges as an alternative strategy of health care. The increasing and consolidation of this model have been propelled by numerous concerns: the avoid hospitalization, rationalization of the hospital beds utilization, costs reduction, and the patient-centred care. The aim is to analyse HC in the Brazilian Unified Health System, identifying the modalities of care and inequalities in services use. To accomplish it, documentary analysis of legislation and exploitation of secondary data available to map out the home care volume of services and procedures produced were carried out. Overall of 94.754 domiciliary hospitalization2008-2016, and 4.008.692 home-based outpatient procedures2012-2016. Ambulatory HC was more widespread, while home admissions were concentrated in some geographical areas. The regional discrepancy is striking, revealing inequalities in supply, access and use. Despite the legal framework, constitution of a specific program and volume of production, HC does not seem to be yet effectively ed as one of the vertexes of the Health Care Network.

Keywords:

Home Care. Information Systems. Geographic Locations. Inequality, Health Care.

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Rajão, F.L, Martins, M.. Care in Brazil: An exploratory study on the setting and service use in the Brazilian Health System.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2019/Dec). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/care-in-brazil-an-exploratory-study-on-the-setting-and-service-use-in-the-brazilian-health-system/17466?id=17466



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