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Assessment of the attributes of Primary Health Care from the perspective of older adultsa a Extracted from the PhD thesis entitled “Quality of primary health care in a municipality of the Legal Amazon region from the perspective of professionals and older adults”, by Rosângela Guerino Masochini, under supervision of Sheila Nascimento Pereira de Farias and co-supervision of Ana Inês Sousa. Graduate Program in Nursing, Anna Nery School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2017.

ABSTRACT

Objective

to assess the attributes of Primary Health Care from the perspective of older adults in the municipality of Sinop, Mato Grosso.

Method

this is an evaluative research study with a cross-sectional design. The data were collected using the Primary Care Assessment Tool for interviews with 345 older adults. After the interviews, with the Primary Care Assessment Tool - Brazil, users' version, the quality level was estimated for the essential and derivative attributes with satisfactory scores ≥ 6.6, and unsatisfactory scores < 6.6. The analysis was performed using the SPSS software, version 19.0.

Results

the Logitudinality, Coordination and Completeness attributes obtained satisfactory assessments. First Contact Access obtained the worse assessment from the perspective of older adults.

Conclusion

it is verified that the first contact access constitutes a barrier to be overcome in seeking to meet the older adults' needs.

Keywords:
Health Evaluation; Aged; Family Health Strategy; Public Health

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