[Family health in Mato Grosso State, Brazil: profile and assessment by physicians and nurses].
This article addresses the profile and assessment of the Family Health Program by physicians and nurses regarding the following aspects: profile characteristics; degree of agreement with the program's proposals; and application of methods for planning and implementing primary care activities. This was an evaluative study with health professionals, and the conclusions highlighted the following: (1) the professional profile reinforcing feminization of the healthcare work force; prevalence of precarious work contracts and worker turnover; wage disparity between professional categories; and efforts at training to achieve the program profile; (2) alteration of the healthcare model by the program, favoring social control and epidemiological surveillance as well as healthcare promotion; and (3) a high degree of implementation of several basic healthcare activities, although implementation of educational and inter-sector activities and control of chronic and endemic diseases was more limited.
Canesqui
Ana Maria
AM
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brasil. anacanesqui@uol.com.br
Spinelli
Maria Angélica Dos Santos
MA
D001938:Brazil; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors