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0045/2023 - CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH AGENTS\' WORK IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN MUNICIPALITIES OF NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL
CARACTERÍSTICAS DO TRABALHO DO AGENTE COMUNITÁRIO DE SAÚDE NA PANDEMIA DA COVID-19 EM MUNICÍPIOS DO NORDESTE BRASILEIRO

Author:

• Camila de Jesus França - França, C.J - <milajfranca@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0822-9411

Co-author(s):

• Cristiane Abdon Nunes - Nunes, C.A - <cristianeabdon@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6352-9858
• Fabiely Gomes da Silva Nunes - Nunes, F.G.S. - <fabielygomes@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1653-0842
• Ana Luiza Queiroz Vilasbôas - Vilasbôas, A. L. Q - <analuvilas@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5566-8337
• Ítalo Ricardo Santos Aleluia - Aleluia, I. R. S - <italo.aleluia@ufob.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9499-6360
• Rosana Aquino Guimarães Pereira - Pereira, R. A. G - <aquino@ufba.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3906-5170
• Nilia Maria de Brito Lima Prado - Prado, N.M.B.L - <nilia.ufba@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-5662


Abstract:

The Community Health Agents (CHW), made up a workforce on the front line of health systems in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The study identified the structural conditions for the organization and characterization of the work of ACS in three municipalities in the Brazilian Northeast during the pandemic period. A qualitative study of multiple cases was carried out. Twenty-eight subjects were interviewed, among community agents and municipal managers. The production of data compared the interviews with document analysis. The operational categories that emergedthe data analysis were: work organization and activities characteristics. The results of this study show a scarcity in the structural conditions of the health units, which during the pandemic, as an alternative, improvised adaptations of the internal spaces of the health units were carried out. There were also changes in their work, both due to the intensification of attributions and new demands, mainly of an administrative nature within the health units, with function deviation, bureaucratic activities and distancethe territory. Such results can be seen as signs of the weakening of the health system and, especially, of Primary Health Care.

Keywords:

Primary Health Care. Community health workers. Community orientation. Covid-19.

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França, C.J, Nunes, C.A, Nunes, F.G.S., Vilasbôas, A. L. Q, Aleluia, I. R. S, Pereira, R. A. G, Prado, N.M.B.L. CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH AGENTS\' WORK IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN MUNICIPALITIES OF NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2023/Feb). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/characteristics-of-community-health-agents-work-in-the-covid19-pandemic-in-municipalities-of-northeastern-brazil/18671?id=18671



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