Territorialization of primary health care and coordination of health care network in Ribeirão Preto: a geospatial approach

• Grant number: 14/09267-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2014
• End date: July 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing - Public Health Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio
• Grantee: Thaís Zamboni Berra
• Host Institution: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (EERP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Health Care Systems are defined by the World Health Organization as the deliberate health situations social responses whose primary purpose is to promote restore and maintain the health of a population. Thus, this research aims to evaluate the ability of Primary Health Care to coordinate of Health Care Networks in Ribeirão Preto/SP. This is a partially ecologic study. The population is composed of health professionals in middle and senior working on Primary Health Care of the county. For date collection , a self-administered instrument used will be adapted and validated by researchers from the School of Nursing of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo , and subsequently, the final score of the scale will be performed , so that we can characterize each area coverage according to the capacity of primary health care to coordinate Health Care Networks in the spatial analysis , is expected to apply the Moran statistic for spatial autocorrelation test and presented contour maps of the marks obtained by the Primary Health Care from the ArcGIS software version 10.0 and Terraview version 4.2.2 . The authors also make use statistics G, GI and GI * of Getis and Ord (1992 ) to also measure the spatial association . The project will be submitted to the School of Nursing of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo Research Ethics Committee in compliance with Resolution No. 466/2012 , the National Health Council.