Práticas dos trabalhadores de saúde na comunidade nos modelos de atenção básica do sul e nordeste do Brasil

Abstract

Primary Health Care or Health Basic Attention in Brazil (ABS) is characterized by a set of individual and collective actions carried through for multiprofessional teams that aimed at to the promotion and protection to the health, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and the maintena ce of the health. This study aims to determine prevalence of ABS workers participation in community health practices. In 2005 a cross-sectional study was carried out comprising 3,743 workers of 240 Basic Health Units (BHU) and the study was about Family Health Program (PSF) and Traditional assistance models in 41 municipalities with more than hundred thousand inhabitants from South and Northeast, Brazil. The prevalence of workers participation in community activities was 62.7% (95% CI 61.1 to 64.3) and 57.7% in South and 65.9% in Northeast. Related to the assistance model, the prevalence was 35.0% in Traditional UBS and 65.0% in PSF. Variables associated with greater participation in the community activities were sex, age, education, linking the career plan, other job than the current one at UBS, training in the management of chronic diseases, use of protocols, satisfaction with community meetings and linking of education with UBS. When stratifying according to the areas and the model of health assistance, several associations were identified. The results show that in Northeast and Family Health Program there was higher participation in activities outside of UBS, reaffirming the expectations of the historical context of the reorganization on the ABS in the Public Health System, that was stimulated as much for the positive experience of the Program of the Communitarian Agents oh the health how much for the necessity to extend the access to the system for excluded population in northeast region. Even so it was observed that there is a need to expand the workers participation in community regardless of assistance model, considering that ABS is the level of care that makes possible the construction of practices based on the context of the life people.