Evaluation of the quality of primary health care for children and adolescents with HIV: PCATool-Brasil.

Objective: Assess the overall score of the Primary Health Care in municipalities where children and adolescents living with HIV reside, according to the PCATool-Brazil instrument, professional version.

Methods: Quantitative study with 527 professionals in 25 municipalities where children and adolescents living with HIV reside. Data collection took place between March and August 2014, by applying PCATool-Brazil instrument, professional version.

[Quality of prenatal care: traditional primary care and Family Health Strategy units in a city in southern Brazil].

Prenatal care in traditional primary care units (UBS) and Family Health Strategy units (ESF) was evaluated by a cross-sectional study from July 2009 to February 2010 in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Seven hundred and ninety-five postpartum women who had received prenatal care in either of the two types of units were interviewed. Four quality levels were used: level 1 (Kessner index modified by Takeda); level 2, which adds clinical obstetric procedures to level 1; level 3, which adds laboratory tests to level 1; and level 4, which includes all the above parameters.