Structure and responsiveness
Are Primary Health Care Units prepared to face Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
The COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the need for global efforts to grant universal health coverage and access, which imposes management challenges for Primary Health Care (PHC). This study aimed to develop and apply an instrument to assess the PHC Units' responsiveness to COVID-19, based on co-production efforts between university researchers and PHC technical teams. The instrument composed of two modules, included identification, operating hours, workforce, work process, structure, equipment, furniture, supplies, Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), Symptomatic Respiratory Patient (SRP) examinations and follow-up, information, surveillance, integration, communication, and management. All the 165 PHC Units in Brasília were invited to complete the instrument. Main results: there was physical structure adaptation (adequate configuration of waiting rooms, internal and external spaces allowing safe distance); provision of PPE and COVID-19 tests; active search for SRP/COVID-19 suspects by phone, mobile or home visits; monitoring flows of patient transfer and telehealth implementation. In conclusion, the PHC Units reorganized their services to meet the demands of the pandemic context. Providing information about structure and responsiveness of PHC Units may subside health systems for planning and decision-making at different levels of management, which is crucial to determine strategies to empower and reinforce PHC responsivity in situations of pandemics and other calamities
Business · Context (archaeology) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Health care · Medical emergency · Operations management · Pandemic · Personal protective equipment · Phone · Political science · Telehealth · Telemedicine · Work (physics) · Workforce · COVID-19 and healthcare impacts · Engineering · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care · Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic · Medicine · Nursing
No caminho da Estratégia da Saúde da Família
Foco na satisfação dos usuários como estratégia participativa para fomentar o acesso e a qualidade da Atenção Primária à Saúde do Distrito Federal
Focus on client satisfaction as a participatory strategy to promote access and quality of Primary Health Care in the Federal District
Health equity and Covid-19
What is health systems responsiveness? Review of existing knowledge and proposed conceptual framework
The co-production of what? Knowledge, values, and social relations in health care
‘Collective making’ as knowledge mobilisation
Quality of primary health care in China
Research electronic data capture (Redcap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
The Redcap consortium
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Toward Covid-19 in Primary Healthcare Providers
Challenges of partnership research
The international response of primary health care to Covid-19
Avaliação da Atenção Primária à Saúde
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |