| Revue: | Revista de saude publica |
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| Número de sistema: | 000536014 |
| ISSN: | 0034-8910 |
| Autores: | Santos, Alaneir de Fátima dos1 Rocha, Hugo André da1 Lima, Ângela Maria de Lourdes Dayrell de1 Abreu, Daisy Maria Xavier de1 Silva, Érica Araújo1 Araújo, Lucas Henrique Lobato de1 Cavalcante, Isabela Cristina Carreiro1 Matta Machado, Antônio Thomaz Gonzaga da1 |
| Instituciones: | 1Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Medicina, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brasil |
| Año: | 2020 |
| Volumen: | 54 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Resumen en inglés | 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. |
| Keyword: | Primary Health Care, Community Health Workers, Health Services Research, Brazil |
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