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- Title
Evaluation of Primary Health Care attributes of Fortaleza city, Ceará State, Brazil.
- Authors
Barbosa Rolim, Leonardo; Gondim Montelro, Janássia; Fernandes Vieira Meyer, Anya Pimentel Gomes; Soares Nuto, Sharmênia de Araújo; Moura de Araújo, Márcio Flávio; Freire Freitas, Roberto Wagner Junior
- Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the Primary Health Care attributes of Fortaleza city, Ceará State. Method: Evaluative study carried out at 97 Primary Health Care Units, from August 2015 to June 2016. 451 professionals from the Family Health Strategy participated in the study. We used the Primary Care Assessment Tool - Brazil, which evaluates the attributes, assigning scores on a scale of zero to ten. We adopted as a cut-off point, to consider high Primary Care score, attributes with a value of 6.60 or higher. Results: Among the eight attributes evaluated the First Contact Access and the Coordination - Information System were the ones that obtained the lowest and highest scores, (2.98) and (7.82), respectively. The Overall Score, calculated by means of a mean of the attributes, was 6.34. Conclusion: The Primary Care evaluated had a low score, showing the need to discuss mechanisms to boost the attributes that obtained low scores.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CHI-squared test; HEALTH care rationing; MEDICAL personnel; PRIMARY health care; QUANTITATIVE research; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2019, Vol 72, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0033