A avaliação da atenção básica e o trabalho dos agentes comunitários de saúde: implantação do PMAQ-AB na região do Médio Paraíba Fluminense

Abstract

This study aims at the implementation of the National Programme for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care (PMAQ-AB) in the Middle Paraíba Fluminense region from the perspective of Community Health Agents and the Primary Care managers. The guiding question of this study was: to what extent the National Programme for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care (PMAQ-AB) captures the importance of the work of the Community Health Agents? Assuming that the development of PMAQ does not occur in the present, linearly or tension-free, and that the ACS work, for his mediation character, is an outstanding role in analysis of these tensions. The overall objective of the study is to analyze the implementation of the National Program for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care (PMAQ-AB) in the municipalities of the region of the Middle Paraíba of the Rio de Janeiro State, taking as axis the work process of community health workers. The study presents a quantitative and qualitative approach, through questionnaires, interviews and focus groups and the method of analysis of the qualitative data was based interpretative support the framework of hermeneutics-dialectics. The field of research was the Middle Paraíba Fluminense region. The results show that in the opinion of management, the PMAQ appears as a guiding strategy of the work process of the teams, that enables the rescue of some principles of the ESF, since the ACS indicate that your first contact with the PMAQ was based on the pact achievement of goals that would result in the payment of a financial incentive. We realize that there is not a criticism as the implementation of PMAQ, or by the management, much less by the teams. Not found in the reports of managers no mention of the work of the ACS, their participation and importance at all stages of PMAQ. The managers consider that the PMAQ promoted a positive change in the way the ACS work organization. The ACS did not notice changes in your routine from the implementation of PMAQ, except for the issue of workload. It follows that the PMAQ-AB does not capture the potential and the work of the ACS. The participation of the ACS in PMAQ phases is identified only in the instrumental aspect, that is, he is a producer, a information register. For the managers the PMAQ emerges as something that opens a positive horizon, greater involvement and resumption of some processes by EAB, but it is not, in fact, the question comes to the ACS and therefore not for the teams.