Health situation room and its potentialities within the framework of primary care
International Journal of Development Research
Health situation room and its potentialities within the framework of primary care
Received 10th May 2020; Received in revised form 02nd June 2020; Accepted 22nd July 2020; Published online 26th August 2020
Copyright © 2020, Ana Eloísa Cruz de Oliveira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: Describe the perception of the professionals in the Primary Care teams of João Pessoa-PB about the potentialities of the Health Situation Room in the work process. Methodology: Descriptive, exploratory study with a qualitative approach, accomplished from June to August 2019, in Family Health Units in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, with a population of 200 health teams and a sample of 74, represented by one of its higher education professionals. Results: The potentialities that stuck out were: the direction for standardized data collection and organization, the support for the decision-making process and promoting improvements in the health work process and the provision care. Conclusion: The Health Situation can offer several features, with an emphasis on greater specificity in the knowledge of local realities to optimize the care process.
