Activities registered by family health professionals in the primary care information system

Authors

  • Ricardo Bezerra Cavalcante Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei
  • Tarcísio Laerte Gontijo Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei
  • Eliete Albano de Azevedo Guimarães Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei
  • Valéria Conceição de Oliveira Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei
  • Jéssica Rauane Teixeira Martins Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/ree.v16i4.22535

Keywords:

Information Systems, Primary Health Care, Family Health

Abstract

This descriptive study analyzed the activities registered in the Primary Care Information System, by family health professionals, in Minas Gerais. Data were obtained from the Unified Health System’s IT Department. A descriptive analysis of the information was performed, by type of activity and professional category, using the statistical software SPSS® 17.0. A total of 635,788,580 activities were registered, with 81.5% of an individual nature. Collective activities totaled 10.2% of the entries. Group care and meetings of community agents with the population totaled 1.1% and home visits, 7.6% of the entries. Physicians and nurses are responsible for 67.6% of the entries. In conclusion, the activities registered are primarily individual in nature, which may reflect the system’s actual design, which prioritizes collecting individual activities and those focused on procedures, and reinforces this same logic in the dissemination of information.

doi: 10.5216/ree.v16i4.22535.

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Author Biographies

Ricardo Bezerra Cavalcante, Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei

Enfermeiro, Doutor em Ciência da Informação. Professor Adjunto da Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei (UFSJ). Divinópolis, MG, Brasil. E-mail: ricardocavalcanteufmg@yahoo.com.br.

Tarcísio Laerte Gontijo, Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei

Enfermeiro, Doutor em Ciências da Saúde. Professor Adjunto da UFSJ. Divinópolis, MG, Brasil. E-mail: enftarcisio@yahoo.com.br.

Eliete Albano de Azevedo Guimarães, Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei

Enfermeira, Doutora em Ciências da Saúde. Professora Adjunta da UFSJ. Divinópolis, MG, Brasil. E-mail: elietealbano@hotmail.com.

Valéria Conceição de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei

Enfermeira, Doutora em Ciências da Saúde. Professora Adjunta da UFSJ. Divinópolis, MG, Brasil. E-mail: valeria.oli.enf@gmail.com.

Jéssica Rauane Teixeira Martins, Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei

Discente do curso de Graduação em Enfermagem da UFSJ. Divinópolis, MG, Brasil. E-mail: jessicarauane_kzz@hotmail.com.

Published

2014-12-31

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