A saúde na atenção básica: perspectiva de um município de pequeno porte do Cariri Paraibano.

Abstract

The Primary Care Health is considered as port of entry to the health services of a municipality. The Family Health Strategy (FHS), created with the aim of organising the ABS, has as objective to promote the reorientation of the practices and actions of health in an integral and continuous way, incorporating and reaffirming the principles finalization of SUS: universalisation, completeness, and community participation. In order to ensure the management of the information obtained from the work of ESF was created the Information System of Primary Care (SIAB) that is used as an instrument of surveillance in health and nutrition in Primary Health Care, already provide data of the health situation of the population, making it an important instrument of surveillance in health and nutrition. The purpose of this study was to describe the health services in the Primary Care context and characterize the information contained in the Primary Healthcare Information System (SIAB) in a small municipality of Cariri Paraibano. It was a descriptive, cross-sectional, with quantitative and qualitative approach, using as methodological procedures the application of questionnaire by interview with the municipal managers, application of focus group with members of the ESF and the analysis of data from the Primary Healthcare Information System (SIAB). It was possible to identify health services in the Primary Care of Amparo, in addition to apprehend the perception of managers and professionals Family Health on important issues of this care network. The programs in the context of food and nutrition were in need of greater attention. As regards the SIAB stands out a percentage of hypertension and diabetes less than the national rate. It is concluded that further studies should be carried out within the framework of Basic Care in Amparo to strengthen actions and identify the factors that are barriers to the development of this Policy.