Educational strategies for human resources in home health care: 8 years' experience from Brazil.

Objective: To analyze characteristics, enrollments and completion rates of healthcare professionals enrolled in Self-Instructional Online Courses of the Home Health Care Multicentre Qualification Program, developed by the Ministry of Health and the Universidade Aberta do SUS (UNASUS), and its relationship with Home Health Care Teams implementation.

Methods: Data were extracted from the Self-Instructional Online Courses' UNASUS enrollment platform database (2012-2018), cross-referenced with the Health Facilities' National Database and compared to Home Care General Coordination team's database. Main outcomes were completion rates and number of courses enrollments, analyzed by sex, age, region, location, profession, workplace, health teams and course type.