Avaliação das redes de saúde através da visão dos médicos do programa Mais Médicos do Brasil na Paraíba

Abstract

Healthcare Networks are organizational arrangements of actions and health services of different technological densities integrated through technical, logistical and management support systems which seek to guarantee comprehensive healthcare (BRASIL, 2010). Health work in the Network format is internationally recognized as an effective model when it is thought to promote health in its entirety, and also when it becomes necessary to equalize the distribution of services in a large population or territorial area with economic and health responsibility. Developing the principle of comprehensiveness has been and continues to be a major challenge faced by the State; this challenge, among other aspects, is very much related to the difficulty to access the offered services and the need for care coordination, which implies continual communication between services, and for which we need functional and robust primary healthcare. The present study sought to design the access to healthcare networks in the state of Paraíba from the perspective of the professionals in the “More Doctors” Program of Brazil in the state of Paraíba. It was also possible to develop the sociodemographic profile of the professionals working in the program, as well as to characterize both access to networks by macro health region and the existence of a hierarchy in health work through the impression of these professionals.