Os efeitos da implementação da estratégia da saúde da família (ESF) na cidade de Sant’Ana do Livramento – RS

Abstract

With the objective of improve and update the health system in Sant’Ana do Livramento, in June of 2014 was implemented the Family Health Strategy so as to fulfill some improvement necessities and decentralization that the town was goingthrough. After five years, this study was made to analyze whether the program worked and helped the town to attend its health needs, as well as to know if there was any objection to the implementation of the new program from the professional’s point of view. This paper consists in a case study with qualitative approach. To the analysis, it was made a triangulation of data that proved that plenty of the prime objectives were achieved, for instance, the populational coverage by the ESF and ACS or the high flow of services that reduce the emergency services. However, there are plenty of objectives that weren’t reached yet, for example the areas that still cannot count with the coverage of ESF’s or similar crews.