Contribution of community health workers to primary health care performance in Brazil
Rev. saúde pública (Online)
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54: 143, 2020. tab
Artigo
em Inglês
| LILACS, BBO, SES-SP
| ID: biblio-1145066
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To associate the strength of community health workers interventions with primary health care strategies for women's and children's health, diabetes, and hypertension. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study assessing 29,778 family health teams working in primary health care in Brazil in 2014. The association between community health workers activity levels and primary health care facilities was analyzed using multiple logistic regression. RESULTS We found higher levels of community health workers activities strongly associated with primary health care practices (OR = 6.88) for those activities targeting hypertension management, followed by children's health (OR = 6.56), and women's health (OR = 6.21). CONCLUSIONS At a time when Brazil discusses whether community health workers should or should not remain in the same scale-up and skill level as they currently are, our results reinforce the importance of these workers for the care model advocated by the Brazilian Unified Health System.
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Índice:
LILACS (Américas)
Assunto principal:
Atenção Primária à Saúde
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Agentes Comunitários de Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo observacional
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Estudo de prevalência
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Estudo prognóstico
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Fatores de risco
Limite:
Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
América do Sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Rev. saúde pública (Online)
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/BR
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