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0105/2020 - How Brazilians access Primary Health Care: Evolution and adversities in the recent period (2012-2018)
Como os brasileiros acessam a Atenção Básica em Saúde: Evolução e adversidades no período recente (2012-2018)

Author:

• Allan Nuno Alves de Sousa - Sousa, A.N.A - <alnunos@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8689-1347

Co-author(s):

• Helena Eri Shimizu - Shimizu, H.E. - Brasília, - <shimizu@unb.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5612-5695


Abstract:

The objective of the study is to analyze access to primary care in Brazil, between 2012 and 2018, considering the availability of services, physical-structural, temporal and organizational characteristics of the primary care units and teams, pointing out their main advances and more important obstacles to its improvement, in different contexts. Descriptive cross-sectional and longitudinal study, with a quantitative approach based on secondary datathe National Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality of PC and population coverage datathe Ministry of Health. 15,378 teams were ed and data59,354 users were mobilized referring to the teams ed for 2012 and 56,369 for 2018. Improvements were noted in terms of service availability and in terms of physical and architectural structure; the majority of the teams implemented and / or qualified the reception to spontaneous demand, including emergency care, improved the ways of organizing the agenda to favor a more fluid contact between users and health professionals, and qualified the scheduling modes and reduced the times of appointment. However, the persistence of recurring problems that need to be faced in order to improve access to primary care in Brazil was found.

Keywords:

Atenção Básica, Acesso aos Serviços de Saúde, Acolhimento

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Sousa, A.N.A, Shimizu, H.E.. How Brazilians access Primary Health Care: Evolution and adversities in the recent period (2012-2018). Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2020/May). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/how-brazilians-access-primary-health-care-evolution-and-adversities-in-the-recent-period-20122018/17587?id=17587&id=17587



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