Contribution of community health workers to primary health care performance in Brazil

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ID16779918
AuthorsAlaneir De Fátima Dos Santos (0000-0002-7674-0449, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Hugo André Da Rocha (0000-0001-6433-0568, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Ângela Maria De Lourdes Dayrell De Lima (0000-0003-3437-5399, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Daisy Maria Xavier De Abreu (0000-0002-6855-8612, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Érica Araújo Silva (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Lucas Henrique Lobato De Araújo (0000-0001-8528-3166, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Isabela Cristina Carreiro Cavalcante, Isabela Cavalcante (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Antônio Thomaz Gonzaga Da Matta Machado (0000-0002-0516-8529, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Antônio Thomaz Gonzaga Da Matta-Machado
Year2020
Volume54
Pages143
Publication date2020-12-12
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista de Saúde Pública (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-8910 • E-ISSN: 0034-8910
PublisherUniversidade de Sao Paulo, Agencia USP de Gestao da Informacao Academica (AGUIA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054002327
PMID33331421
OpenAlexW3108272777
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited9

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

Community health · Community health workers · Environmental health · Family medicine · Health care · Health services · Logistic regression · Population · Primary care · Primary health care · Psychological intervention · Public health · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care · Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Gerontology

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