The goal of the research was to evaluate the presence and extent of integrality in Primary Health Care services in municipalities of the 4th Regional Health Coordination and to identify possible associated factors. A mixed study with a sequential explanatory design was developed. Phase I (quantitative) was carried out in 2018 and phase II (qualitative) was carried out in 2020. In phase I, a cross-sectional desc...
Objective: to discuss and reflect on Health Care Networks, their theoretical concepts and legal frameworks in health policies. Method: a reflective theoretical study, based on the scientific literature on theoretical concepts and legal frameworks of Health Care Networks. Results: the integration of health services is a response to the fragmentation of care, and has a multiplicity of concepts, principles and dim...
Objective: to describe an experience of study, reflection and practice of conducting the discursive interview. Method: experience report on the development and practice of the discursive interview technique, carried out between September and December 2019, during the discipline of Metodi Qualitativi per la ricerca sociale, at the Università degli Studi di Torino, in Italy. Three discursive interviews were appli...
Primary Health Care is defined as the first level of care within the health system, characterized by the continuity and integrality of care, coordination of care, family-centered attention, community orientation and participation, and the cultural competence of professionals. Thus, its four essential attributes, among which, the attribute of completeness, are defined. In this context, the evaluation becomes ess...