Configuration of Health Care Networks in the SUS: analysis based on primary and hospital care components.

This study seeks to point out the different configurations of Health Care Networks in primary care (AB) and Hospital Care (AH), dimensioned based on coverage, quality, and resolvability characteristics in health macro-regions. Cross-sectional study used the cluster analysis and segmented 103 macro-regions into different profiles of coverage, quality and resolubility: group 1 (high coverage/AB and medium/AH; low quality AB-AH with high resolubility); group 2 (high coverage/AB and low/AH; low quality AB-AH with medium resolubility) and group 3 (high coverage/AB and medium/AH; high quality AB-AH with high resolubility). Coverage in AB was classified as high for 100% of the Brazilian population and in AH low to 9.

[Quality of prehospital fixed components of the Brazilian Emergency and Urgent Care Network: a study based on data from PMAQ-AB and PNASS].

The organization and management of integrated health systems is complex and challenging. As a strategy to improve the quality and access to urgent services, the Brazilian Ministry of Health implemented the Emergency and Urgent Care Network (RUE), comprised of care facilities with different technological levels. Assess the quality of prehospital fixed components of the RUE in health macroregions.

Quality of Telehealth Services in Primary Care in the State of Minas Gerais.

Telemedicine is seen as an important tool to face contemporary health challenges. The factors that help improve quality in these services must be studied. The objective of this work was to assess the quality of telehealth primary care services offered in the State of Minas Gerais -Brazil, based on the ISO 13131 standard.

Contribution of community health workers to primary health care performance in Brazil.

Objective: To associate the strength of community health workers interventions with primary health care strategies for women's and children's health, diabetes, and hypertension.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study assessing 29,778 family health teams working in primary health care in Brazil in 2014. The association between community health workers activity levels and primary health care facilities was analyzed using multiple logistic regression.

Primary health care in the 25 years of Journal Ciência & Saúde Coletiva.

Primary Health Care (PHC) is an area of study that has improved remarkably in the last decades. In Brazil, this academic production is highly expressed in the field of Collective Health. This paper aims to analyze the PHC production published in the first 25 years of the "Journal Ciência & Saúde Coletiva" (C&SC).

[The impact of primary healthcare and the reduction of primary health care-sensitive hospital admissions].

This study aimed to analyze the association between quality of primary healthcare (PHC) in Brazilian municipalities (counties) and the number of hospitalizations due to primary healthcare-sensitive conditions. This was an ecological study with analysis of nationwide secondary data. The quality of the number of hospitalizations due to primary healthcare-sensitive conditions was based on assessment of the National Program for Improvement of Access and Quality of Basic Care (PMAQ-AB).

[Relationship between corporate classification of service providers and quality of primary healthcare in Brazil].

This study aims to investigate a potential association between different categories of service providers in primary healthcare in Brazil and the quality of care provided, as measured by the Program for Improvement of Access and Quality of Basic Care (PMAQ). The study adopted a quantitative design with a descriptive and inferential approach via logistic regression. A total of 4,469 Brazilian municipalities (counties) were analyzed.

[Coordination of care and quality of healthcare for women and children in the PMAQ].

The study aimed to identify the association between coordination of care and quality of healthcare for women and children in primary healthcare in Brazil. A cross-sectional study was performed with data from 30,523 teams that participated in the Program for Improvement in Access and Quality of Basic Care (PMAQ) in 2013. Logistic regression was performed, in which the dependent variable was quality of healthcare for women and children and the independent variable was level of coordination of care.

Implementation of Telehealth Resources in Primary Care in Brazil and Its Association with Quality of Care.

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Service users' perception about healthcare provided by teams participating in the National Program for Primary Care Access and Quality Improvement in Brazil.

Objective: to analyze service users' perception of health care provided by the teams participating in the National Program for Primary Care Access and Quality Improvement (PMAQ-AB) in Brazil.

Methods: this was a cross-sectional study using data from interviews with users of services provided by PMAQ-AB teams in 2012. Multinomial logistic regression was used to analyze the association between perception level (very good/good, regular, poor/very poor) and variables of four primary care attributes: accessibility, integrality, longitudinality and care coordination.

Mental health in primary care: an evaluation using the Item Response Theory.

OBJECTIVE To determine the items of the Brazilian National Program for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care that better evaluate the capacity to provide mental health care. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study carried out using the Graded Response Model of the Item Response Theory using secondary data from the second cycle of the National Program for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care, which evaluates 30,523 primary care teams in the period from 2013 to 2014 in Brazil. The internal consistency, correlation between items, and correlation between items and the total score were tested using the Cronbach's alpha, Spearman's correlation, and point biserial coefficients, respectively.

Belo Horizonte Telehealth: Incorporation of Teleconsultations in a Health Primary Care System.

Introduction: The Belo Horizonte Telehealth program, a pioneer in telemedicine within the Brazilian National Health System (Sistema Único de Sauùde in Portuguese), was implemented by the Belo Horizonte City Health Department (SMSA-BH) in 2004. The purpose of the present study is to analyze opinions on the obstacles, difficulties, and suggestions on the use of teleconsultations.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted among primary healthcare professionals and health managers.

Care coordination in PMAQ-AB: an Item Response Theory-based analysis.

Objective: Analyze the quality of the National Program for Primary Care Access and Quality Improvement variables to evaluate the coordination of primary care.

Methods: A cross-sectional study based on data from 17,202 primary care teams that participated in the National Program for Primary Care Access and Quality Improvement in 2012. Based on the Item Response Theory, Samejima's Gradual Response Model was used to estimate the score related to the level of coordination.

[Incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies and quality of primary healthcare in Brazil].

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are means to handle information, streamline communication, and contribute to patient care. This article describes the incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies in primary care and its association with quality, based on the Brazilian National Program for the Improvement of Access and Quality in Primary Care (PMAQ in portuguese). This was a cross-sectional study with 17,053 teams.

Is the Use of Information and Communication Technology Associated With Aspects of Women's Primary Health Care in Brazil?

The use of information and communication technology (ICT) is on the increase in the health systems, representing a means of improving the quality of health care. This study analyzed the ICT incorporation in primary care in Brazil and identified the different aspects that may be associated with better quality in the care provided, in relation to certain aspects of women's care. We noted an unevenness regarding ICT incorporation in Brazil.

[Health care, quality certification and institutional support: a focus on primary health care in Brazil].

Objective: To provide an overview of the distribution of institutional support in primary care in Brazil and to identify associations between the activities of institutional support and the outcome of the certification of the National Programme for Improving Access and Quality in Primary Health Care (PMAQ).

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted through interviews with 16 960 professionals in Brazil in 2012.To examine the relationship between the received support and the quality of health care it was made a multiple binary logistic regression.

Institutional and matrix support and its relationship with primary healthcare.

Objective: To analyze whether the level of institutional and matrix support is associated with better certification of primary healthcare teams.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated two kinds of primary healthcare support - 14,489 teams received institutional support and 14,306 teams received matrix support. Logistic regression models were applied.

[An overview of telehealth initiatives in Latin America].

This article aimed to systematize the views on telehealth in Latin America and to present the experience of building an instrument for monitoring the development of telehealth initiatives based on the reality of this region. A group was structured to coordinate telehealth efforts in Latin America, with members appointed by the ministries of health of 16 countries. Five thematic groups were also set up.

Telehealth distance education course in Latin America: analysis of an experience involving 15 countries.

Background: Telehealth activities are already going on in many Latin American countries. This article aims to present and evaluate a distance learning telehealth training course in the region.

Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study.

Teleconsultations in public primary care units of the city of belo horizonte, Brazil: profile of patients and physicians.

Objective: The aim of this study is to report patient and physician profiles of those who used the teleconsultation system in the primary care health units of a health district in the city of Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.

Materials And Methods: Data were collected from the telehealth attendance records of nine Primary Health Units (Unidade Básica de Saúde [UBS] in Portuguese) and from interviews carried out with the referring physicians. The criteria for inclusion required that data come from users seen by means of telehealth in the period between December 2004 and August 2010 and from the practitioners who saw them.

Evaluating the experience of training through videoconferences in primary care.

Introduction: The technological innovations that are a part of organizational realities allow for new possibilities in social processes. In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the municipality established a system of training through videoconferences in primary care connecting professors and professionals from primary care units to discuss assistance problems in medicine, nursing, and dentistry.

Objective: An evaluation of the professionals' perception regarding the system of training through videoconferences in primary care.

[Using information resources management to set up the area of health information: a case analysis].

Objective: To report the experience of the City Department of Health in Belo Horizonte (SMSA/BH), state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, with the use of information resources management (IRM) to develop a health information system.

Methods: In this case study we reviewed documents describing initiatives in the area of information, the mechanisms used to enable these initiatives, and the results achieved with a management system focused on the implementation of an electronic medical records system in the period from 2003 to 2008. This process is described and analyzed from the perspective of IRM.