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FAMILY HEALTH CARE TEAMS’ EFFICIENCY IN ARAGUARI COUNTY

ANDREIA GONÇALVES DOS SANTOS 1 ; CLEIDINEY ALVES E SILVA 2 ; EFIGENIA APARECIDA MACIEL DE FREITAS 3 ; JÉSSICA DE CARVALHO ANTUNES BARREIRA 2 ; MARISLENE PULSENA CUNHA NUNES 2
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Family Health Care Strategy (FHCS) is considered the main entrance to Brazilian’s Public Health Care System. FHCS may solve 85% of all health demands. The present study aimed to analyze Araguari County’s Family Health Care Team’s Productivity. METHODS A retrospective study evaluated the consolidated report of Basic Health Care Information System (SIAB) of 17 Araguari County’s Family Health Care teams between January and November of 2015. RESULTS There were 57.716 consultations in the lead-time. Consultations causes were mostly High Blood Pressure (48.58%), Diabetes (20.25%), Childcare (12.31%), Women Cervical Smears (11.43%), Prenatal Care (6.71%) and STD/SIDA, Tuberculosis Hansen’s disease amounting 0.73%. Complementary tests were requested (53.976) mostly to clinical pathology (87.27%). The written referrals (7,625) were related to specialized care (87.02%), urgency/emergency assistance (11.86%) and hospital stays (1.13%). The home visits (HV) were 104.888 being 94.53% from the Community Health Agent, 2.53% Nurse HV, 1.57% Secondary Level Schooling professionals HV, 1.22% medical HV and 0.57% Other Third Level Schooling professionals. Concerning the lead-time 75,773 procedures were performed at the Basic Family Health Care Unit including mostly injections (45.57%) followed by individual nurse assistance (32.89%), bandages (9.19%) and an amounting of 12.35% other procedures. CONCLUSION Family Health Care Teams (FHCT) have an important role in population’s assistance. They are able to work with Health Promotion, Prevention, Treatment and Rehab and answer to a great part of a community’s need in Primary Health Care.