title: Evaluation of actions concerning systemic arterial hypertension in primary healthcare.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the efficiency of the Family Health Strategy in actions related to hypertension.
  
  
  METHODS
  Evaluative, cross-sectional quantitative research based on secondary data of 66 small municipalities located in the state of Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil, with maximum potential coverage of 100% by the Family Health Strategy in 2007. Input indicators, products and results were evaluated. The municipalities' efficiency of services production and results production was compared through data envelopment analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The municipalities were more efficient in services production (37.8%) than in results production (16.6%). Forty-one municipalities (62.2%) were inefficient in the services: enrolment in the Hypertension and Diabetes Information System, individual assistance and home visit for hypertensive users, and 55 (83.3%) were inefficient in the production of impact against hypertension.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The evaluation model used in this study proved to be capable of measuring efficiency in primary healthcare by evaluating the productivity of services and results.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Saúde Pública, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. cassia_rabetti@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Aparecida de Cássia
authors.initials: Ade C
authors.lastname: Rabetti
authors.forename: Sérgio Fernando Torres de
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Freitas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005192:Family Health; D019538:Health Care Surveys / Q000379:methods*; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009313:National Health Programs; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015397:Program Evaluation