Comparação da atenção a idosos longevos em unidades básicas de saúde com e sem estratégia de saúde da família

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Navarro, Joel Hirtz do Nascimento
• Orientador(a): Bós, Ângelo José Gonçalves
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gerontologia Biomédica
• Departamento: Instituto de Geriatria e Gerontologia
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE; SAÚDE PÚBLICA; IDOSOS; GERIATRIA; MEDICINA
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/6931

The Primary Health Care (PHC) constitutes preferably as the first level of contact of an individual with the Unified Health System and the Family Health Strategy (FHS) is the means by which the reorganization is sought in Brazil. The Ministry of Health considers relevant to assessing the PHC through the presence and extent of the essential attributes and derivatives proposed by the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool-Brazil). In this sense, the present study aimed to compare the health care of the oldest in Basic Health Units (BHU) with and without ESF. It characterized by being observational, cross-sectional and quantitative approach. Fifity elderly were interviewed, aged 80 or more, users of BHU with and without FHS in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. When comparing the BHU models only services without Family Health demonstrated a high degree of orientation to the PHC for the Essential Attributes Score and the General Score of PCATool-Brazil. It was found that although the FHS be the means by which the PHC reorganizes in the country, this model does not have the intended effectiveness for the health care of the elderly. It is understood that the findings of this study contribute to new strategies in the PHC work process is designed so that receive more universality the older people and their different capacities, including those longer-lived.