More doctors program: an integrative review

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira Martins, Ana Caroline
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Sant’anna, Paulo Afrânio, Durães Rocha, Jucimere Fagundes, Vieira, Maria Aparecida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.unifor.br/RBPS/article/view/6515
• topic: National Health Programs; Physicians; Primary Health Care; Health.; Programas Nacionales de Salud; Médicos; Atención Primaria de Salud; Salud.; Programas Nacionais de Saúde; Médicos; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Saúde.

Objective: To describe the knowledge produced in the literature about the creation of the More Doctors Program and its repercussion in Brazil. Methods: Integrative review carried out from 2013 to 2016 in the databases Scientific Electronic Library Online, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, Virtual Health Library and Coleciona SUS using the following descriptors: program, doctors, primary health care, health. Results: The study included twenty-one publications that met the inclusion criteria but that were found in intermediate journals and presented low levels of evidence. The main results refer to the creation of the More Doctors Program (MDP) and its repercussion for doctors, the population and in the media. The MDP was created with the aim of expanding the access and minimizing health inequalities through the distribution of doctors in municipalities considered priority. The program generated great repercussion in Brazil, with different opinions among governmental institutions, users, media and, mainly, Brazilian doctors. Conclusions: Reducing inequalities in the distribution of doctors is hard task that requires long-term actions. In addition, there is the need to implement strategies to improve infrastructure, the distribution of inputs and equipment, the logistic support and to make a health care network capable of solving users’ conditions in an efficient and effective way at all levels of care.