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Work of community health agents in the Family Health Strategy: meta-synthesis

Alonso, Carolina Maria do Carmo ; Béguin, Pascal Daniel ; Duarte, Francisco José de Castro Moura

Revista de saúde pública, 2018-01, Vol.52 (14), p.14-14 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Brazil: Universidade de São Paulo

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  • Título:
    Work of community health agents in the Family Health Strategy: meta-synthesis
  • Autor: Alonso, Carolina Maria do Carmo ; Béguin, Pascal Daniel ; Duarte, Francisco José de Castro Moura
  • Assuntos: Business administration ; Community Health Workers ; Family Health Strategy ; Health Human Resource Evaluation ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ; Review ; Social Anthropology and ethnology ; SOCIOLOGY ; Working Conditions
  • É parte de: Revista de saúde pública, 2018-01, Vol.52 (14), p.14-14
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    PMCID: PMC5825119
    Conflict of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
    Authors’ Contribution: Design, planning of the study, collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data: CMCA. Elaboration and revision of the manuscript and public responsibility for the content of the article: CMCA, PDB, FJCMD.
  • Descrição: OBJECTIVE To systematize and analyze the evidence from qualitative studies that address the perception of Brazilian Community Health Agents about their work. METHODS This is a systematic review of the meta-synthesis type on the work of community health agents, carried out from the Virtual Health Library using the descriptors "Agente Comunitário de Saúde" and "Trabalho", in Portuguese. The strategy was constructed by crossing descriptors, using the Boolean operator "AND", and filtering Brazilian articles, published from 2004 to 2014, which resulted in 129 identified articles. We removed quantitative or quanti-qualitative research articles, essays, debates, literature reviews, reports of experiences, and research that did not include Brazilian Community Health Agents as subjects. Using these criteria, we selected and analyzed 33 studies that allowed us to identify common subjects and differences between them, to group the main conclusions, to classify subjects, and to interpret the content. RESULTS The analysis resulted in three thematic units: characteristics of the work of community health agents, problems related to the work of community health agents, and positive aspects of the work of community health agents. On the characteristics, we could see that the work of the community health agents is permeated by the political and social dimensions of the health work with predominant use of light technologies. The main input is the knowledge that this professional obtains with the contact with families, which is developed with home visits. On the problems in the work of community health agents, we could identify the lack of limits in their attributions, poor conditions, obstacles in the relationship with the community and teams, weak professional training, and bureaucracy. The positive aspects we identified were the recognition of the work by families, resolution, bonding, work with peers, and work close to home. CONCLUSIONS This review provided an overview of the difficulties and positive aspects that are present in the daily work of community health agents. Given this, we have raised two challenges. The first one refers to how public policy makers need to appropriation the research results and the second one refers to the need to invest in studies that are designed to generate solutions for the difficulties faced by community health agents in their work.
  • Editor: Brazil: Universidade de São Paulo
  • Idioma: Português;Inglês
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