Espaço e serviços de saúde pública em Uberlândia (MG) : uma análise do acesso ao Programa Saúde da Família Núcleo Pampulha

Abstract

The present work had as objective to realize a study on the space organization of the dynamics and the access to the Program Health of the Family at Núcleo Pampulha, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais. To reach these objectives, we research 160 interviews with users of the area, between September of 2006 and January of 2007, aiming to analyze the users profile being approached on aspects to the age, sort, school level, familiar structure, kind of transport, participation in communitarian groups. Moreover, it was looked to analyze the satisfaction level of the users in relation to the professionals assistance and the infrastructure quality of the Unidade Básica de Saúde da Família (UBSF). Also interviews with nine coordinators of Pampulha team to know them vision about the implantation and development of the Program activities. The results had shown that majority of Program users is feminine, with three basic wages, with low school frequence, half use the bus as main transport and that the participation in communitarian groups is small, were also verified that the Program has good acceptability, with a positive professionals evaluation. But difficulties exist to guarantee specialized consultations and examinations, evidencing problems in the joint of the net with the average services and high complexity. On aspects to the organization of the Núcleo Pampulha space had not been considered in the localization of the UBSFs, to definition of the abrangence area of the teams. The geographic concepts need to be better incorporated in the actions of the Unidade Básica de Saúde da Família (UBSF).