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| Author(s): |
Anneliese Domingues Wysocki
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Enfermagem (EE/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2014-07-11 |
| Examining board members: |
Tereza Cristina Scatena Villa;
Aline Aparecida Monroe;
Erika Simone Galvão Pinto;
Antonio Ruffino Netto;
Silvia Helena Figueiredo Vendramini
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| Advisor: | Tereza Cristina Scatena Villa |
| Abstract | |
The study aimed to assess Primary Health Care (PHC) in regard of tuberculosis (TB) treatment at São José do Rio Preto-SP. An evaluative and quantitative study was conducted, adopting the components of health services assessment: structure, process and outcomes, as the methodological framework. The observational units of the study were composed by 25 PHC services from the municipal health network (Basic Health Units-BHU and Family Health Units-FHU). To assess PHC in regard of TB treatment, data collection was performed between July to December 2011 through interviews with 239 health staff members (physician, nurses, nursing assistants and community health workers) using a specific questionnaire and secondary data survey. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics techniques. Performance analysis of PHC to TB treatment, according to the evaluative components of Structure and Process, was performed through validation of the data collection questionnaire variables, from which nine evaluative indicators (5 related to structure and 4 related to TB care process) were created, using as a reference to this validation data produced by five municipalities of a multicenter study in which the present study is included. Considering the differences between the health services, a standardized variable Z was calculated. Using as parameter of comparison the value of Z = 1, indicators were rated as unsatisfactory (Z <1), good (-1 <Z <1) and very good (Z> 1). Proportions were calculated for the evaluative component \"result\". Time of practice in PHC was low especially among doctors and nurses. Structure indicators \"training of staff\" and \"access to medical records\" and process indicators \"DOT (directly observed therapy)\" and \"TB activities in the community\" were classified as unsatisfactory (Z<1). Structure indicators \"material resources\" and \"integration among other services\" were classified as good. The best evaluated indicators in the municipality were \"staff involved with TB treatment\" and \"reference and counter reference\". There was a low proportion of DOT and sputum smear control exams among TB patients followed by PHC services. In 2011 there was an abruptly increase of TB cases in BHU and FHU. TB outcomes indicators were consistent with structure and process indicators. Operational difficulties for TB case management in PHC services were identified. Despite the effort for horizontalization of TB control, organizational aspects of PHC reproduces centralization and fragmentation of care, focusing on the role of nurses as coordinators of TB care in a complex and contradictory context, in which the actions of other team members occurs occasionally, opposing the ideological and operational assumptions of PHC. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/08381-8 - Primary health care services assessment in tuberculosis treatment, São José do Rio Preto, 2011 |
| Grantee: | Anneliese Domingues Wysocki |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |