The “More Doctors for Brazil” project: perception of managers and professionals during the Coronavírus pandemic in Southern Bahia

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Larissa Pimentel Costa Menezes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Teixeira, Carmen Fontes de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3571
• topic: Atenção primária de saúde; Processo de trabalho médico; Programa Mais Médicos; analisar a percepção dos gestores e dos profissionais envolvidos no Projeto Mais Médicos sobre os desafios do provimento e da reorganização do processo de trabalho médico frente ao cenário de pandemia do Coronavírus no município de Ilhéus/BA, em 2020; Atención primaria de salud; Proceso de trabajo médico; Programa Más Médicos; Primary health care; Medical work process; More doctors program

This paper analyzes the challenges perceived by managers and professionals involved in the Mais Médicos Project regarding the provision and reorganization of the medical work process during the coronavirus pandemic in the municipality of Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil, in 2020. Data was collected by means of a document review and interviews with the municipality’s health managers and four medical professionals hired by the project. Result analysis included the managers’ perception regarding medical supply in the municipality, as well as the monitoring, supervision, and evaluation of professional performance carried out by the Primary Care coordination. Analysis of the medical work process, in turn, tried to identify whether the objects, means of work used by professionals, and ways of work organization changed before and during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings indicate that, despite the insufficient number of vacancies to meet the needs of the municipality in terms of Primary Care coverage, the provision and retention of physicians by the More Doctors for Brazil project expanded the population’s access to services and, consequently, to meeting needs arising from the high prevalence of chronic diseases, malnutrition, domestic violence, and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic.