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0312/2019 - The economic crisis and primary health care in the SUS of Rio de Janeiro.
A crise econômica e a atenção primária à saúde no SUS da cidade do Rio de Janeiro.

Author:

• Eduardo Melo - Melo, E - <eduardo.melo@ensp.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5881-4849

Co-author(s):

• Maria Helena Magalhães de Mendonça - Mendonça, M.H.M. - <mhelenam@ensp.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3917-9103
• Márcia Teixeira - Teixeira, M. - <txmarcia@ensp.fiocruz.br, txmarcia47@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9502-0789


Abstract:

This article addresses the crisis in primary health care of the public health system of the city of Rio de Janeiro,2018. This municipality has had a strong expansion of primary care since 2009, adopting Social Organizations for hiring professionals and managing services, qualifying the infrastructure of the units and prioritizing family and community medicine, in addition to adopting management practices such as standardization of offers, evaluation and compensation for performance, marketing, among others. Given the recent economic crisis, the decision of the municipal manager was to reduce family health teams, considering the current National Policy of Primary Care and arguing that it is possible to optimize resources (doing more with less). In the process, he faced resistance, which was not enough to stop him. Due to the resonance of this city (second largest in Brazil and prominent in the national press) and based on public documents and formulations on management, the crisis expressed in the primary health care of this city was problematized around the implications of the adoption of Social Organizations in the sustainability of the health services, conducting management processes and their rationalities, as well as the political action of social agents in defense of SUS and primary care in particular.

Keywords:

crisis, Rio de Janeiro, primary health care

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Melo, E, Mendonça, M.H.M., Teixeira, M.. The economic crisis and primary health care in the SUS of Rio de Janeiro.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2019/Oct). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-economic-crisis-and-primary-health-care-in-the-sus-of-rio-de-janeiro/17386?id=17386



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