title: The Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program, the infrastructure of Primary Health Units and the Municipal Human Development Index.
abstract: The main objective of this article was to examine the context in which professionals working within the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program operate. This study used the infrastructure scale of primary health units (PHUs), which was recently developed by Soares Neto and colleagues to provide more information regarding the relationship between the infrastructure of PHUs and the Municipal Human Development Index (MHDI) of municipalities that received Mais Médicos Program doctors. Using exploratory and inferential statistics, the article shows that 65.2% of the PHUs that received Mais Médicos Program doctors had medium-quality infrastructure and only 5.8% of them had low-quality infrastructure. The correlation of 0.50 between the infrastructure indicator and the MHDI points to a moderate tendency for municipalities with low MHDIs to have more precarious PHUs. Using multiple linear regression analysis it can be inferred that the main factor that contributed to the increase in the infrastructure indicator of the PHUs was the average municipal income. On the other hand, the factor that negatively affected the infrastructure of the PHUs was being located in the north or northeast regions.
authors.affiliation: Núcleo de Física Molecular e Fluidos, Instituto de Física, Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Campus Darci Ribeiro s/n, Asa Norte. 70910-900 Brasília DF Brasil. jjsoaresneto@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Joaquim José
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.affiliation: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fiocruz. Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Helena
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.affiliation: Centro de Estudos Avançados Multidisciplinares, UnB. Brasília DF Brasil.
authors.forename: Cecília Brito
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Alves
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006078:Government Programs; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000078329:Workforce