1. A ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA, O TERRITÓRIO E AS REDES DE ATENÇÃO: INTERCAMBIAMENTOS NECESSÁRIOS PARA A INTEGRAÇÃO DAS AÇÕES DO SISTEMA ÚNICO DE SAÚDE (SUS) EM MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL.
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de Faria, Rivaldo Mauro
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PRIMARY health care , *HEALTH policy , *MEDICAL care , *HEALTH services accessibility , *PUBLIC health - Abstract
The Secretary of Health State of Minas Gerais, with the support of the Ministry of Health, have been making extensive effort to universalize the primary health care, given its strategic role in the formation the networks of the health care in the Unique Health System (SUS). Therefore, began to encourage the adoption of the Family Health Teams through of the "Program Structuring Health at Home". Associated with this program, was created the Master Plan of the Primary Health Care (PDAPS), whose goal it's provide an instrument to territorial planning and management of these service, qualifying them to fulfill the role as gateway of the network of the health in the SUS. The aim of this paper is discuss the territorial planning of the primary health care and the networks of the health care the SUS in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The hypothetical premise of the discussion is the existential interdependence between primary health care, networks and the territory. The methodology is based on a theoretical study and descriptive, on one side, and a theorical analysis and critical, of another. Therefore, have a dimension of discovery of the relationship between networks, territory and primary health care, on one side, and a dimension of note about the ways how this is being planned, of another. The results indicate improvements in the construction of networks in Minas Gerais, but there are also theoretical issues and methodological that needs to be addressed, especially on the forms of territorial definition of the services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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