Strengthening Primary Health Care PHC relies directly on training medical specialists in primary care. This text aims to report the training experiences in Family Medicine in Rio de Janeiro between 2008 and 2016, bringing to reflection the faculty de...
Contracting consists in the development and implementation of a documented agreement by one party (payer) provides compensation to the other party (provider) in exchange for a set of health services to a targeted population. We describe, through a ca...
The reform proposals initiated in 1996 intended that Regional Health Administrations (RHA) should play a relevant role in the process of transforming an integrated model towards a contract model of health care. The essential instrument of this transf...
This study aimed to identify the offering of health actions and procedures by family health teams (eSF), based on Rio de Janeiro Municipality’s (MRJ) Health Services Portfolio (CS) and the main factors associated with this offering, in the differen...
. This study seeks to understand the difficulties experienced by family physicians (FP) in the management of Mental Disorders (MD) and their proposals to improve the quality of care. A qualitative study with semi-structured interviews to ten family p...
Authors approach parallel developments in Family Healthcare Units (USF), in Portugal (since 2006) and in primary care Family Clinics (CF) in Rio de Janeiro (since 2009). In this essay, they highlight a meeting that took place in Portugal with Brazili...
The 2005 reform of Portuguese primary health care (PHC) was one of the most successful reforms of the country‘s public services. The most relevant event was the Family Health Units (FHU): voluntary and self-organized multidisciplinary teams that pr...
Between the 1990s and 2000s, several questionnaires were developed to assess health quality, especially in primary health care, seeking to measure the users‘ experience in these services. This study proposes an integrative review of the literature ...
