Investigators at Federal University Ceara Describe Findings in Collective Health Research (Assessment of the Quality of Primary Health Care In Fortaleza, Brazil, From the Perspective of Adult Service Users In 2019)

2021 AUG 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine - Collective Health Research. According to news reporting originating from Ceara, Brazil, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Primary Health Care (PHC) is the ‘front door’ and keystone of Brazil’s public health system, meaning that the evaluation of the quality of primary care services is of utmost importance. Using the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT), this study evaluated the performance of public PHC services in Fortaleza from the view of adult service users.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Federal University Ceara, “We conducted a cross-sectional study of 233 adult service users from 19 primary care centers (PCCs) between June and December 2019, collecting data on the sociodemographic and epidemiological characteristics of users and structural features of PCCs. The association between user and PCC characteristics and primary care attribute scores was measured by multilevel logistic regression. Most participants were women, aged between 30 and 59 years, brown, house owners, had completed high school, did not own health insurance, and belonged to families with at least 4 members. The lowest and highest-scoring attributes were ‘first contact accessibility’ and ‘first contact utilization’ (2.8 and 8.1, respectively). The overall essential and general scores were 6.0 and 5.7, respectively. Having complete health teams, more community health workers, and a family and community medicine residency program had a positive effect on the general score (p <0.05).”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Overall, the public services analyzed in Fortaleza received a low performance rating from the adult service users.”

For more information on this research see: Assessment of the Quality of Primary Health Care In Fortaleza, Brazil, From the Perspective of Adult Service Users In 2019. Ciencia & Saude Coletiva, 2021;26(6):2083-2096. Ciencia & Saude Coletiva can be contacted at: Abrasco-assoc Brasileira Pos-graduacao & Saude Coletiva, Avenida Brasil, 4036, Sala 700 Manguinhos-1, Rio De Janeiro, 21040-36, Brazil.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Lourrany Borges Costa, Federal University Ceara Ufc, Dept Saude Comunitaria, Faculty of Medicine, R Prof Costa Mendes 1281-1282, Br-60430140 Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. Additional authors for this research include Maria Vaudelice Mota, Magda Moura de Almeida Porto, Andrea Lima da Silva Porto, Carla Salles Gazeta Vieira Fernandes, Eveline Torquato Santos, Joao Pedro Marques de Oliveira, Thayna Custodio Mota and Maria Nice Almeida Alencar.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232021266.39722020. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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