[Of Brazil and Quebec, food for thought: Brazilian community health workers bridge the gap between families and health professionals]. / Du Brésil au Québec, quelques éléments de réflexion: les agents communautaires de santé brésiliens font le pont entre les families et les professionnels de la santé.
Can J Public Health
; 102(1): 61-3, 2011.
Article
em Fr
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| ID: mdl-21488381
The Brazilian unified health system consists of 27,000 family health teams with a network of approximately 300,000 community health agents whose mandate is to link the families they visit every month with health professionals at the family health unit. Since 2003, Quebec has been implementing its health and social services reforms by emphasizing the integration of care and services (public, associative and private) in local networks which have a formal population health responsibility. This commentary aims to underline some similarities and differences between the program of the Brazilian 'units of family health' and that of integrated network clinics (CRI) or Groups of family medicine (GMF) in Quebec. In both cases, a major concern is to organize primary care services in as close proximity as possible to the population of a given territory, and to improve accessibility and adequacy of services. In addition, through these community health agents, Brazil enables the creation of a social security network that assures an effective follow-up of all members of the population with regard to health services.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Serviço Social
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Agentes Comunitários de Saúde
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Serviços de Saúde Comunitária
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Planejamento em Saúde Comunitária
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Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
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America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
Fr
Revista:
Can J Public Health
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
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