Primary health care beyond COVID-19: Challenges for maintaining routine activities

• Autor(a) principal: de Oliveira Dutra, Eva Jordana
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Gregório de Araújo, Vitória Keller, Lopes Ferreira, Amanda Gomes, da Silva, Sérgio Balbino, de Oliveira Sales, Paula Vitória, Galvão Pinto, Érika Simone
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Enfermagem Atual In Derme
• Texto Completo: https://revistaenfermagematual.com/index.php/revista/article/view/1866
• topic: Atenção Primária a Saúde; COVID-19; Pandemia; Estratégia de Saúde da Família; Primary Health Care; COVID-19; Pandemic; Family Health Strategy; Atención Primaria de Salud; ; COVID-19; Pandemia; Estrategia de Salud de la Familia

Objective: To reflect on the challenges of maintaining routine primary health care activities beyond the context of COVID-19. Method: Reflective study on the impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the functioning of primary health care regarding its routine activities. Documents from the Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, Medline and Nursing Database databases were used, searched between February and April 2023. Results: From the reflections woven based on the findings of the literature, it was observed that primary health care was influenced by the pandemic context according to its consequences. Therefore, the following thematic categories were listed for reflection: primary health care idealized during the COVID-19 pandemic, Difficulties in action that emerged with the pandemic developments and Inheritance of the pandemic that have the potential to promote the remodeling of PHC. Final considerations: Primary health care was presented as an important means of combating covid-19. Due to the magnitude of the pandemic, its reorganization was required, with many of its functions being placed in the background. Just as ways of reorganizing primary health care were outlined for pandemic control, new ways of conducting it post-pandemic are a challenge to be faced, since such measures associated with fear of contamination by the population led to the non-demand for health care services. health, resulting in a scenario in which acute diseases were neglected, a consequence of the distance between the population and health units.