scholarly journals Measuring the quality of primary care in national health surveys: Lessons from Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erno Harzheim ◽  
Luiz F. Pinto ◽  
Otávio P. D'Avila ◽  
Lisiane Hauser
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
National Health ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Assessment

Background: South Africa started to lead the cross-culturally validation and use of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT) in Africa, when Professor Bresick filled a gap, as this continent was until then the only one that had never used it in evaluation of primary health care facilities until 2015.Aim: The authors aim to demonstrate that after the consolidation of Bresick’s team to an African version of PCAT, it had been adapted to household survey in Brazil.Methods: In this letter, authors reflect on how Brazil had adapted PCAT to a national random household survey with Brazilian National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) – the Brazilian Census Bureau.Results: In the the beginning of 2019, Brazilian Ministry of Health brought back the PCAT as the official national primary health care assessment tool. Brazilian National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) included a new module (set of questions) in its National Health Survey (PNS-2019) and collected more than 100 000 households interviews in about 40% of the country’s municipalities. This module had 25 questions of the Brazilian validated version of the adult reduced PCAT.Conclusion: We believe that IBGE innovation with the Ministry of Health can encourage South Africa to establish a similar partnership with its National Institute of Statistics (Statistics South Africa) for the country to establish a baseline for future planning of primary health care, for decision-making based on scientific evidence.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Primary Health Care attributes of Fortaleza city, Ceará State, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Barbosa Rolim ◽  
Janássia Gondim Monteiro ◽  
Anya Pimentel Gomes Fernandes Vieira Meyer ◽  
Sharmênia de Araújo Soares Nuto ◽  
Márcio Flávio Moura de Araújo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Family Health ◽  
A Value ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Care Assessment ◽  
Family Health Strategy

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the Primary Health Care attributes of Fortaleza city, Ceará State. Method: Evaluative study carried out at 97 Primary Health Care Units, from August 2015 to June 2016. 451 professionals from the Family Health Strategy participated in the study. We used the Primary Care Assessment Tool - Brazil, which evaluates the attributes, assigning scores on a scale of zero to ten. We adopted as a cut-off point, to consider high Primary Care score, attributes with a value of 6.60 or higher. Results: Among the eight attributes evaluated the First Contact Access and the Coordination - Information System were the ones that obtained the lowest and highest scores, (2.98) and (7.82), respectively. The Overall Score, calculated by means of a mean of the attributes, was 6.34. Conclusion: The Primary Care evaluated had a low score, showing the need to discuss mechanisms to boost the attributes that obtained low scores.

scholarly journals Evaluation of primary health care for children under 5 years old in the municipality of lagarto-se

2020 ◽  
pp. 758-766
Author(s):  
Adênia Káren Cardoso Costa ◽  
Anne Katherine Nascimento Mesquita ◽  
Anny Giselly Milhome Milhome da Costa Farre ◽  
Karenine Maria Holanda Cavalcante ◽  
Maria do Socorro Claudino Barreiro
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Assessment ◽  
Primary Care Assessment Tool ◽  
Children Under 5

Objetivo: avaliar a efetividade da assistência primária as crianças menores de cinco anos de idade cadastradas em uma Clínica de Saúde da Família, Lagarto-SE. Método: trata-se de uma pesquisa de resultados, de abordagem quantitativa e delineamento transversal, no qual se utilizou Primary Care Assessment Tool – Versão Criança para avaliação dos atributos de acesso, longitudinalidade, coordenação, integralidade, orientação familiar e orientação comunitária. Resultados: foram entrevistados 50 adultos, responsáveis por crianças de até cinco anos de idade cadastradas no serviço. A avaliação foi positiva para o grau de afiliação e o atributo coordenação-sistema de informações, e os demais não alcançaram o escore mínimo de referência. Conclusão: os atributos revelam há barreiras no acesso ao serviço, falha na continuidade do atendimento, fragilidade na referência e contra-referência e comprometimento na comunicação profissionais de saúde-paciente.

scholarly journals Validity and reliability of the Brazilian Primary Care Assessment Tool: Oral Health of Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Débora Deus Cardozo ◽  
Caroline Stein ◽  
Lisiane Hauser ◽  
Liége Teixeira Fontanive ◽  
Erno Harzheim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Dental Services ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Assessment ◽  
Primary Care Assessment Tool

ABSTRACT: Objective: To test the factorial validity and reliability of the Primary Care Assessment Tool adapted to Oral Health, adult patient version, an instrument used to verify the presence and extent of attributes in Primary Health Care services. Methods: Population-based cross-sectional study using conglomerate random sample carried out in Primary Health Care Dental services in Porto Alegre between 2011 and 2013. We interviewed 407 adult patients who used Primary Health Care Dental services. Construct validity was tested through factorial validity and reliability of the Primary Care Assessment Tool, that comprises 81 items distributed throughout Primary Health Care attributes. Equamax orthogonal rotation method was used in the factorial analysis; and, in order to assess reliability of each component, we used the item-total correlation and the ratio of success of the scale. Results: In the factorial analysis, 10 factors were retained, explaining 53.3% of the total variation. This result demonstrates the multidimensional structure of the instrument. The reliability assessment showed Cronbach’s alpha values ranging from 0.39 to 0.89. For the success of the scale most of the results (eight of nine attributes) were greater than 85%. Conclusions: The instrument is valid for the assessment of oral health services in Primary Health Care from the perspective of adult patients, as well as for monitoring and evaluation of oral health services in Primary Health Care attributes and comparative studies.

scholarly journals Impact of patient-perceived quality of primary health care on the patients' bypass behaviour in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
WeiWei Zhang ◽  
Yuankai Huang ◽  
Gaojie Li ◽  
Hongjie Zhou ◽  
Xiaoyu Xi
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Assessment ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Patient bypass often occurs under the loose gatekeeper system. Additionally, patients’ perceived quality of primary health care (PHC) is one of the important factors affecting bypass behaviour. Objective to explore individuals’ bypass behaviour in China and the associations between patients’ perceived quality of PHC and their bypass behaviour. MethodIn 2019, this study investigated Chinese bypass behaviour and the potential influencing factors. The questionnaire that was used assessed the following: the perceived quality of primary care using the Primary Care Assessment Tool; bypass experience; age; health insurance; and other factors. A logit regression model was used to analyse the impact of perceived quality of PHC on bypass behaviour. Results The data of 2070 residents in 706 health care facilities in China were collected. The results show that perceived quality of PHC is significantly associated with bypass behaviour in China. After adjustments were made for patients’ sociodemographic and other characteristics, an increase of one standard deviation (SD; odds ratio (OR) per 1-SD increase) in the PCAT scores led to a 2% decrease in bypass behaviour (OR 0.98, p<0.05). Gender, hukou and cold fee for PHC were negatively associated with bypass behaviour. Conclusion Patients' perceptions of PHC service quality play an active role in reducing their bypass behaviour, which may provide a new perspective for the design of PHC health policies.

scholarly journals Primary health care assessment tools: a literature review and metasynthesis

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 4851-4860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lislaine Aparecida Fracolli ◽  
Maria Fernanda Pereira Gomes ◽  
Fabiana Rodrigues Zequini Nabão ◽  
Mariana Souza Santos ◽  
Verusca Kelly Cappellini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Primary Care Providers ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Assessment ◽  
Primary Care Assessment Tool

This study comprises a systematic review and metasynthesis of qualitative literature on national and international databases to identify the main tools used to assess Primary Health Care (PHC). A total of 3,048 results were returned for literature written in Portuguese, Spanish and English published between 1979 and 2013. Thirty-three articles/studies were selected after thorough reading and analysis. Eight of these studies addressed the use of one or more of the following validated PHC assessment tools: the WHO Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCET); the ADHD Questionnaire for Primary Care Providers (AQ-PCP); the General Practice Assessment Questionnaire (GPAQ), PACOTAPS (primary health care software); and the PCAT (Primary Care Assessment Tool). The study showed that the majority of these tools were used internationally. The PCAT and EUROPEP were used in Brazil and the most commonly used tool in this country was the PCAT. The results show that the use of research tools to assess PHC may assist in the creation of new proposals to improve family healthcare and that PCAT is the most adequate tool for this purpose.

scholarly journals Children's health care assistance according to their families: a comparison between models of Primary Care

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Bertoglio Comassetto Antunes de Oliveira ◽  
Maria de La Ó Ramallo Veríssimo
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Integration Of Care ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Assessment

OBJECTIVE To compare the health assistance models of Basic Traditional Units (UBS) with the Family Health Strategy (ESF) units for presence and extent of attributes of Primary Health Care (APS), specifically in the care of children. METHOD A cross-sectional study of a quantitative approach with families of children attended by the Public Health Service of Colombo, Paraná. The Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCA-Tool) was applied to parents of 482 children, 235 ESF units and 247 UBS units covering all primary care units of the municipality, between June and July 2012. The results were analyzed according to the PCA-Tool manual. RESULTS ESF units reached a borderline overall score for primary health care standards. However, they fared better in their attributes of Affiliation, Integration of care coordination, Comprehensiveness, Family Centeredness and Accessibility of use, while the attributes of Community Guidance/Orientation, Coordination of Information Systems, Longitudinality and Access attributes were rated as insufficient for APS. UBS units had low scores on all attributes. CONCLUSION The ESF units are closer to the principles of APS (Primary Health Care), but there is need to review actions of child care aimed at the attributes of APS in both care models, corroborating similar studies from other regions of Brazil.

scholarly journals Assessment of Primary Health Care Attributes in Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafaela Simão de Abrantes ◽  
Débora Lana Alves Monteiro ◽  
Aline de Paula Rêgo Graciano Luz ◽  
Ricardo Alves de Olinda ◽  
Wilton Wilney Nascimento Padilha
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Assessment ◽  
Education Activity ◽  
First Contact

ABSTRACT Objective: to assess the presence and extent of Primary Health Care attributes in Campina Grande, Paraíba. Method: this is a cross-sectional study with 202 professionals from the Basic Health Units. The Primary Care Assessment Tool, Brazil, was used, which includes eight attributes of primary care whose scores were converted into a scale from 0 to 10, with those considered satisfactory > 6.60. Result: the general score mean was 7.6, but First contact access obtained a score of 3.7. Dental surgeons attributed the worst scores for all attributes (p <0.05). Permanent education activity was associated with a high general score (p <0.01). Conclusion: with the exception of First contact access, the other attributes are present, but initiatives by teams and managers are necessary for its expansion, with permanent education being the main strategy in this process.

scholarly journals Primary Health Care attributes in the context of indigenous health

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esron Soares Carvalho Rocha ◽  
Noeli das Neves Toledo ◽  
Rizioléia Marina Pinheiro Pina ◽  
Márcia Cristina Rodrigues Fausto ◽  
Ana Luiza D’Viana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Health District ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Rio Negro ◽  
Care Assessment

ABSTRACT Objectives: to assess the attributes of Primary Health Care from the perspective of health professionals, comparing services in the Special Indigenous Health District and the Municipal Health Offices. Methods: a cross-sectional study in the Upper Rio Negro region, State of Amazonas, with 116 professionals. The data were collected through the Primary Care Assessment Tool. Scores were categorized (≥ 6.6) - strong orientation and (<6.6) - low orientation. The chi-square and maximum likelihood test for crossover analysis. The comparison between professionals the Kruskal-Wallis Test. Results: a higher overall score was observed in the Indigenous Health District (7.2). The same trend was observed individually in the essential and derived attributes. Conclusions: this work may support strategies that positively impact the management model and work processes from the perspective of strengthening the primary care offered to the population from Rio Negro.

scholarly journals Impact of patient-perceived quality of primary health care on the patients' bypass behaviour in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
WeiWei Zhang ◽  
Yuankai Huang ◽  
Gaojie Li ◽  
Hongjie Zhou ◽  
Xiaoyu Xi
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Assessment ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: Bypass behaviour is a phenomenon that an individual visits an higher-level and farther health institution instead of one with an acceptable quality of care that is closer. Patient bypass often occurs under the loose rules of first diagnosis. Additionally, patients’ perceived quality of primary health care is one of the important factors affecting their bypass behaviours. Objective: to explore individuals’ bypass behaviour in China and the impact of patients’ perceived quality of primary health care on their bypass behaviour. Method: in 2019, a national wide sampling survey was conducted to collect data of Chinese residents’ bypass behaviours and its potential influencing factors. The questionnaire that was used assessed the following: the perceived quality of primary care using the Primary Care Assessment Tool; bypass experience; age; health insurance; and other factors. A logit regression model was used to analyse the impact of perceived quality of PHC on bypass behaviour. Results: the data of 2070 residents sampled in 706 secondary/tertiary hospitals in China were collected. The results show that perceived quality of PHC is significantly associated with bypass behaviour in China. Per increase of one the PCAT mean score had an odds ratio of 0.98 (p<0.05) for bypass behaviour. Gender, household registration and cold fee for PHC were negatively associated with bypass behaviour. Conclusion: patients' perceived quality of primary health care plays an active role in reducing their bypass behaviours, which may provide a new perspective for the design of primary health care policies.

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