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Home care assistance and the right to health: an experience in the Brazilian net

OBJECTIVE: To consider, careful, how the home care has contributed to the population health. METHODS: the study was processed through observation of interviews (with: 7 users, 22 workers, 2 managers and 3 representatives of the Local Board of Health) and documentary research, between March and July 2006, in a primary care health unit, in Porto Alegre, RS. RESULTS: The results were systematized using developed indicators, they showed that workers and managers understands the home care as being relevant to community health, however, they do not apply that understanding in their work practice. CONCLUSION: The home care assistance has been conducted focusing on disease; its aim is to work on individual subjects; emphasizes the development of curative care and does not developed inter-sector actions. From another point of view, tries to resolve the situation in the first contact, offers continuous and longitudinal attention, has a defined territory, promotes inter-personal relations (workers and users), and acts trying to provide a humanized care.

Domiciliary attention; Health system; Primary health attention


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