Acesso e qualidade da atenção pré-natal na Estratégia Saúde da Família: infraestrutura, cuidado e gestão

This study focuses on access to prenatal care and quality of care in the Family Health Strategy in Brazil as a whole and in the North region, through evaluation of infrastructure characteristics in the health units, management, and supply of care provided by the teams, from the perspective of region...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Wilderi Sidney Gonçalves Guimarães, Rosana Cristina Pereira Parente, Thayanne Louzada Ferreira Guimarães, Luiza Garnelo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)
Repositorio:Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.teste-cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br:article/6871
Acceso en línea:https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/6871
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Atenção Primária à Saúde
Cuidado Pré-Natal
Avaliação em Saúde
Desigualdades em Saúde
Descripción
Sumario:This study focuses on access to prenatal care and quality of care in the Family Health Strategy in Brazil as a whole and in the North region, through evaluation of infrastructure characteristics in the health units, management, and supply of care provided by the teams, from the perspective of regional and state inequalities. A cross-sectional evaluative and normative study was performed, drawing on the external evaluation component of the second round of the Program for Improvement of Access and Quality of Primary Care, in 2013-2014. The results revealed the inadequacy of the primary healthcare network’s infrastructure for prenatal care, low adequacy of clinical actions for quality of care, and the teams’ low management capacity to guarantee access and quality of care. In the distribution according to geopolitical regions, the findings pertaining to the units’ infrastructure indicate a direct relationship between the infrastructure’s adequacy and social contexts with higher municipal human development indices and income. For the clinical actions in patient care, the teams in all the regions scored low on adequacy, with slightly better results in the North and South regions of the country. There were important differences between the states of the North, and the states with higher mean income and human development scored higher on adequacy. The results indicate important organizational difficulties in both access and quality of care provided by the health teams, in addition to visible insufficiency in management activities aimed to improve access and quality of prenatal care.