title: Production of nursing care in primary health care services.
abstract: This descriptive and quantitative study aimed to characterize the production of nursing care in primary health care services in a region of the city of Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, Brazil. The study sample comprised care actions delivered by nurses and registered in the HygiaWeb Information System, from 2006 to 2009. Statistical analysis was performed. Results showed that nursing care delivered by nurses accounted for 9.5 to 14.6% of total professional care provided by professionals. Eventual care actions were the most frequent. The concentration of programmatic care was higher for children, women, pregnant and postpartum women. In conclusion, the predominance of eventual care demonstrated that the health system has been focused on acute conditions. Little of nursing work has been directed at the achievement of comprehensiveness, considering the inexpressive share of longitudinal follow up in total care delivery. The expansion of nursing staff represents potential for care delivery to the population, but further qualification of nursing actions is needed.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Brazil. smatumoto@eerp.usp.br
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matumoto
authors.forename: Kátia Cristina dos Santos
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.forename: Maria José Bistafa
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Claudia Benedita
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: dos Santos
authors.forename: Cinira Magali
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Fortuna
authors.forename: Silvana Martins
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Mishima
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*