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The health policy context in Brazil has featured a series of measures to improve primary health care (PHC), including a national access and quality improvement program (Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e Qualidade, PMAQ-AB) and the Mais Médicos Program (More Doctors, PMM) and upgrading PHC centers ('Requalifica UBS'). The paper examines the PMM's placement of doctors, by quality of PHC structure, in an endeavor to identify synergies among the three programs. It reports on a transverse study based on secondary data from PMAQ-AB Cycles 1 and 2, the PMM and 'Requalifica UBS'. The PHC facilities inventoried during PMAQ-AB Cycle 1 were classified, on pre-established typology, into five groups ranked from A (best) to E (failed). They were then compared in terms of PMM personnel allocated and Requalifica UBS proposals. The results point to convergences in investments by the three programs. Incentives targeted predominantly PHC facilities of types B and C, indicating a concentration of efforts on PHC facilities with potential for structural quality improvements. In addition to expanding access, the provision of doctors by the PMM, added to infrastructure upgrades and work process improvements, contributes to addressing high turnover and guaranteeing retention of doctors in PHC.

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Resumo No contexto das políticas de saúde no Brasil, observa-se um conjunto de ações para qualificação da atenção primária à saúde (APS), entre as quais os Programas Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade (PMAQ-AB), Mais Médicos (PMM) e Requalificação das UBS (Requalifica UBS). O artigo analisa a inserção de médicos do PMM segundo qualidade da estrutura das UBS, buscando reconhecer sinergias entre os três programas. Trata-se de estudo transversal com base em dados secundários do PMAQ-AB ciclos 1 e 2, do PMM e do Requalifica UBS. As UBS recenseadas no PMAQ-AB Ciclo 1 foram classificadas, segundo tipologia previamente elaborada, em cinco grupos hierarquizados de A (melhores) a E (reprovadas). Em seguida foram cotejadas com a alocação de profissionais do PMM e propostas Requalifica. Os resultados sinalizam convergências de investimentos dos três programas. Observa-se predomínio de incentivos nas UBS tipos B e C, indicando concentração de esforços em UBS com potencialidade de melhora da qualidade de sua estrutura. Além da ampliação do acesso, o componente provisão emergencial de médicos do PMM, somado à melhoria da infraestrutura e qualificação do processo de trabalho conflui para enfrentar a rotatividade e garantir a permanência de médicos na APS.

Abstract The health policy context in Brazil has featured a series of measures to improve primary health care (PHC), including a national access and quality improvement program (Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e Qualidade, PMAQ-AB) and the Mais Médicos Program (More Doctors, PMM) and upgrading PHC centers (‘Requalifica UBS’). The paper examines the PMM's placement of doctors, by quality of PHC structure, in an endeavor to identify synergies among the three programs. It reports on a transverse study based on secondary data from PMAQ-AB Cycles 1 and 2, the PMM and ‘Requalifica UBS’. The PHC facilities inventoried during PMAQ-AB Cycle 1 were classified, on pre-established typology, into five groups ranked from A (best) to E (failed). They were then compared in terms of PMM personnel allocated and Requalifica UBS proposals. The results point to convergences in investments by the three programs. Incentives targeted predominantly PHC facilities of types B and C, indicating a concentration of efforts on PHC facilities with potential for structural quality improvements. In addition to expanding access, the provision of doctors by the PMM, added to infrastructure upgrades and work process improvements, contributes to addressing high turnover and guaranteeing retention of doctors in PHC.

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