Primary Health Care Evaluation: the view of clients and professionals about the Family Health Strategy.
OBJECTIVE
to evaluate the attributes of primary health care as for access; longitudinality; comprehensiveness; coordination; family counseling and community counseling in the Family Health Strategy, triangulating and comparing the views of stakeholders involved in the care process.


METHODS
evaluative research with a quantitative approach and cross-sectional design. Data collected using the Primary Care Assessment Tool for interviews with 527 adult clients, 34 health professionals, and 330 parents of children up to two years old, related to 33 family health teams, in eleven municipalities. Analysis conducted in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software, with a confidence interval of 95% and error of 0.1.


RESULTS
the three groups assessed the first contact access - accessibility with low scores. Professionals evaluated with a high score the other attributes. Clients assigned low score evaluations for the attributes: community counseling; family counseling; comprehensiveness - services rendered; comprehensiveness - available services.


CONCLUSIONS
the quality of performance self-reported by the professionals of the Family Health Strategy is not perceived or valued by clients, and the actions and services may have been developed inappropriately or insufficiently to be apprehended by the experience of clients.
Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Alfenas, MG, Brazil.
Simone Albino
SA
da Silva
Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Alfenas, MG, Brazil.
Tamara Cristina
TC
Baitelo
Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Lislaine Aparecida
LA
Fracolli
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care