Report of the matrix implementation in a municipality of Ceara: from challenges to achievements

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Paulo Henrique Caetano de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Monteiro, Marianna Braga Noronha, Silva, Pamela Bezerra da, Azevedo, Uly Castro de
• 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/3422
• topic: Saúde da família; Atenção primária; Apoio matricial; Salud de la familia; Atención primaria; Apoyo matricial; Family health; Primary health; Matrix support

Matrix support is one of the basic prerogatives for the longitudinal, holistic, and effective follow-up of complex cases in the communities, which is the basis of support of the Expanded Nucleus of Family Health and Primary Care (NASF-AB), now called multiprofessional health team. This article aimed to describe how the process of implementing matrix support meetings took place in a municipal NASF from the interior of the state of Ceará, by a qualitative, cross-sectional, narrative-descriptive experience report and based on the experience from the institution of the matrix support meeting. Written records of meeting minutes and memorable events were used. The process of establishing the matrix meetings took place in three stages: territorial analysis, in which the problems of the community were raised and the networks available in the municipality were identified; clarification meeting on the idea of matrix support, benefits and ways of implementing it in the professional routine (at this stage, in addition to raising awareness among professionals, management support was sought); and agreement on the frequencies at which the meetings would take place, based on sequential meetings and selection of the cases that would be discussed. In conclusion, for them to be carried out effectively, the matrix support meetings need to have clear objectives in front of the professionals who will participate in them, since many work processes do not have the perspective of matrix support. However, it must be understood that difficulties will arise in maintaining such meetings and that the success or failure of the meetings will be the responsibility of all participants.