THE CHALLENGE OF CHRONIC ILLNESSES IN PRIMARY CARE

Introduction: skilled attendance chronic diseases in Brazil and in the world the left of ensuring access, completeness, longitudinality and coordination of care by primary care services are one of the most important challenges of the coming decades for these services. Methods: The multidisciplinary team of the Municipality of Santa Isabel - SP, were stimulated through the continuing education department of Primary Santa Marcelina to conduct the consultations with chronic diseases using the prerogatives of management of access, care and vulnerability. Conclusions : The municipality teams have managed to increase the number of patients with hypertension and diabetes, to more accurately assess the risks and injuries of patients and more accurately whether they are achieving the therapeutic goals