Fixedness of nurses and doctors in the Family Health Program, Praia Grande, São Paulo, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Eliana Zulianni
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Bousquat, Aylene
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbmfc.org.br/rbmfc/article/view/185
• topic: Primary Health Care; Family Health Program; Human Resources; Atención Primaria de Salud; Programa de Salud Familiar; Recursos Humanos; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Programa Saúde da Família; Recursos Humanos

Recruiting, training and establishing a team of professionals are necessary conditions for the consolidation of the Family Health Program (ESF, acronym in Portuguese) as the structuring strategy of Primary Health Care in Brazil. This paper aimed to profile doctors and nurses from the ESF, identifying professionals who settled down to the ESF in the municipality of Praia Grande, São Paulo. All professionals with an university degree were interviewed in 2004-2005 and in 2007 a follow-up was performed with those remained in ESF. All the nurses and 66% of doctors who had been interviewed previously were still working there after 2-3 years. There was no statistic association between graduation time, medical residency, living in the city and fixedness. However, there is a clear association between the reason for their entry into the ESF and their fixedness: those professionals who got hired from ESF in 2007 aimed a good salary and employment opportunities when were entering in the ESF team.