Among the many activities that family healthcare doctors and nurses carry out, the present study had the aims of characterizing the programmed, preventive and interventional actions relating to adolescents and analyzing professionals' perceptions regarding the care practices for this age group, through quantitative-qualitative analysis. The results showed that nurses carry out programmed actions such as prenatal appointments, uterine cancer prevention and family planning more often than doctors do. Doctors state that their actions are accomplished during their appointments. Both nurses and doctors say that they provide guidance regarding pregnancy prevention, STD/Aids and condom use. Almost all nurses and just over 50% of doctors carry out interventional actions. There is a consensus regarding the need to implement a systematized service and for the municipality to capacitate all professionals, restructure the material and human resources, introduce other professionals and integrate the actions with services other than healthcare.
Adolescent; Family Health Program; Primary prevention; Primary health care
