O direito à saúde e sua (não) efetivação pelas políticas públicas de atenção primária à saúde: uma análise da aplicação do método PCATOOL

Abstract

The health is a universal right and duty of the state, guaranteed through social and economic policies aimed at reducing the risk of disease and other health problems and the universal and equal access to actions and services for its promotion, protection and recovery. The Primary Health Care (PHC) sets up a proposed reorganization of the health system representing the first level of care and the construction of a new care model. A key strategy for the effectiveness of health systems and ensuring improvements in the health status of the population under consideration. The question, problem gird on the need to assess whether the APS actions are being implemented effectively enough to meet the demands of local people. For such a study was conducted evaluation, cross-sectional design, with primary data collection between February and June 2015, in the health units of primary care of the 4th Regional Coordination of Health (4ªCRS) of the RS State. The research was directed to professionals, by checking the attributes accessibility and longitudinality, by applying the PCATool-Brazil instrument, in the municipality of Santa Maria / RS, which allowed us to identify the aspects of structure and process services, hitherto run, require restatement or reformulation, in order to guide the municipal manager in the elaboration of public policies APS.