The Brazilian primary health care response to the COVID-19 pandemic: individual and collective approaches.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Brazil's PHC wide coverage has a potential role in the fight against COVID, especially in less developed regions. PHC should deal with COVID-19 treatment; health surveillance; continuity of care; and social support. This article aims to analyze PHC performance profiles during the pandemic, in these axes, comparing the five Brazilian macro-regions.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey study was carried out, using stratified probability sampling of PHC facilities (PHCF). A Composite Index was created, the Covid PHC Index (CPI). Factor analysis revealed that collective actions contrastingly behaved to individual actions. We verified differences in the distributions of CPI components between macro-regions and their associations with structural indicators.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Bousquat A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10748390 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature