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Primary Care-Sensitive Conditions: a descriptive review of results of the Brazilian academic production

The study proposes to describe and examine the results of the Brazilian academic production about Hospitalizations for Primary Care-Sensitive Conditions. Descriptive and analytical review conducted in scientific articles Periodicals portals. Twenty-one articles have integrated the study, which were divided according to territorial coverage, with 9.6% National, 4.8% in the Northeast, 9.6% in the Midwest, 33.3% in the South and 42.7 % in the Southeast. The Sensitive Cause to Primary Care Hospitalizations, despite presenting increase in some states and/or isolated cities show a tendency for stabilization and reduction in different regions.

Primary prevention; Primary Health Care; Quality indicators, Health care


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