Perfil dos trabalhadores dos núcleos ampliados de saúde da família e atenção básica de duas capitais do Brasil

Abstract

The Extended Family Health and Primary Care Centers (Nasf-AB), must act in an integrated manner to offer clinical, health and pedagogical support to professionals in the Family Health Strategy. Few findings in the scientific literature deal with the profile of Nasf-AB workers. In this context, the present work aims to outline the profile of Nasf-AB workers in the cities of João Pessoa / PB and Campo Grande / MS. This is a cross-sectional, multicenter study, with a sample of 120 Nasf-AB workers in João Pessoa and 62 in Campo Grande. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Study participants were predominantly women. It was found that the composition of the teams in both cities was homogeneous and more than 50% of the professionals had graduated 10 years ago or more and had some specialization. Half of the workers had been employed at Nasf-AB for up to 4 years. There was a slight difference between the prevalence of respondents who stated that Nasf-AB was the place where they would like to work. In both capitals, just over 50% of workers said they felt completely fulfilled with their work at Nasf-AB. The results of this study identified, in the workforce of João Pessoa and Campo Grande, objective characteristics that seem to be common throughout the national territory, given the homogeneity of the data.