Family Health Strategy: the best alternative for a health system oriented towards the protection of people and civilizatory achievements

Authors

  • Stephan Sperling Universidade de São Paulo, Programa de Residência Médica em Medicina de Família e Comunidade e Faculdade de Medicina. São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v11i4.1471

Keywords:

Family Health Strategy, primary care, primary health care, National Policy on Primary Health Care, person-centred care.

Abstract

The ESF – Estratégia de Saúde da Família (Family Health Strategy) remains the best alternative to offer coordination of care and access to the Brazilian SUS – Sistema Único de Saúde (known as Unified Health System). However, since the 1990s, its structuring has been marked by significant contradictions, due to the fragility of its administrative policy, with little progress in the consolidation of its attributes, as well as the limits of its clinical governance policy, often generating iniquities in care. Analyzing the phenomenon of the revision of the PNAB – Política Nacional de Atenção Básica (National Policy on Primary Health Care), which is assumed to be a deregulatory agenda on the gateway to system, we seek to indicate possibilities of confrontation to consolidate the model of the Family Health Strategy in Brazil and to strengthen the entire health system.

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Published

2017-12-31

How to Cite

Sperling, S. (2017). Family Health Strategy: the best alternative for a health system oriented towards the protection of people and civilizatory achievements. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v11i4.1471

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 4 (2017)

Section

Notes on current situations

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