Avaliação de indicadores e áreas selecionadas de expansão da estratégia saúde da família na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The Family Health Strategy in the city of Rio de Janeiro cannot be thought of as a single tool in the context of local health. Its interaction with the municipal health network must be considered to occur a flow of patients between the levels of care. The municipality is divided into ten Programmatic Areas with their own health coordination, and the size and diversity of its regions make these areas have particular needs and therefore require different responses to health issues. The area focused in this study is 3.1, which holds the Complexo do Alemão, marked by poverty, violence and social exclusion. In the year 2000, its Human Development Index (HDI) was 0.474, one of the worst among the neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro. The scenario of vulnerability was crucial for the Complex to be one of the first areas to have interventions of the Community Agents Program and the Family Health Program in the municipality. This study seeks to relate the characteristics of the Family Health Strategy in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro with the characteristics of the model introduced in the Complexo do Alemão, based on data of information systems and bibliographic search on the region. There are common features in Rio de Janeiro and the Complexo do Alemão, such as the lack of a programming reference and counter-reference to meet the needs of patients of the Family Health Strategy in secondary and tertiary levels of care. Also there are features that are characteristic of the Complexo do Alemão, such as the amount of teams compatible with the population according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Health, contrasting with the municipality as a whole, which has a number of teams still small considering the population.