title: Assessment of child and adult users of the degree of orientation of Primary Healthcare in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
abstract: In the first half of 2014, 6,675 adults and caregivers of children using Primary Care (PC) services in Rio de Janeiro were interviewed using the Primary Care Assessment Tool - PCATool-Brazil. The aim was to arrive at an accurate overview of the extent to which PC services in all of the Planning Areas (PA) of the Rio de Janeiro City Health Department (CHD) - Municipal Health Secretariat have the essential and derivative attributes. This was a cross-sectional study of random, independent samples of the service users (children and adults). Results were measured using the scores assigned to PC attributes. In the opinion of adults and children using PC services, Type A Units - Municipal Healthcare Centers and Family Clinics staffed only with Family Health Teams, performed better than Type B units. The scores for the attributes "first contact accessibility", "comprehensive service - services provided", "community orientation" and "family orientation" still need to be improved. On the other hand "coordinated care" and "continuity" are on their way to quality scores, being always rated at around 6.0 or even higher.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, ernoharz@terra.com.br.
authors.forename: Erno
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Harzheim
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Luiz Felipe
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil, ernoharz@terra.com.br.
authors.forename: Lisiane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hauser
authors.affiliation: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Soranz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D017028:Caregivers; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005192:Family Health; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires