User satisfaction with the Family Health Program in Vespasiano, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Objective. To assess factors influencing perspectives on Brazil's national Family Health Program (PSF) by exploring satisfaction with PSF units and home-visit community health agents and perceptions about PSF unit accessibility among frequent users (primary caretakers of children under age 5) in Ves...
| Publicado en: | Pan American Journal of Public Health Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 454 - 461 |
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World Health Organization
Jun2012
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=77896755&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 77896755 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10204989 55OA jtl: Pan American Journal of Public Health issn: 10204989 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2012 vid: 31 iid: 6 pid: 437 pub: World Health Organization artinfo: ui: 77896755 10.1590/S1020-49892012000600002 ppf: 454 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 190KB tig: atl: User satisfaction with the Family Health Program in Vespasiano, Minas Gerais, Brazil. aug: au: Mues, Katherine E. Resende, Joana C. Dos Santos, Otávio C. Perez, Lilian G. Ferreira, José A. Leon, Juan S. affil: Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America Faculdade da Saúde e Ecologia Humana (FASEH), Vespasiano, Minas Gerais, Brazil su: Minas Gerais (Brazil) Brazil Home care services Family medicine Health programs Multivariate analysis Regression analysis sug: subj: Home care services Minas Gerais (Brazil) Brazil Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Home Health Care Services Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners Offices of all other health practitioners Other provincial and territorial public administration Family medicine Health programs Multivariate analysis Regression analysis keyword: child welfare diarrhea infantile national health programs patient satisfaction Program evaluation rotavirus vaccines bienestar del niño Brasil diarrea infantil Evaluación de programas y proyectos de salud programas nacionales de salud satisfacción del paciente vacunas contra rotavirus child welfare diarrhea infantile national health programs patient satisfaction Program evaluation rotavirus vaccines bienestar del niño Brasil diarrea infantil Evaluación de programas y proyectos de salud programas nacionales de salud satisfacción del paciente vacunas contra rotavirus ab: Objective. To assess factors influencing perspectives on Brazil's national Family Health Program (PSF) by exploring satisfaction with PSF units and home-visit community health agents and perceptions about PSF unit accessibility among frequent users (primary caretakers of children under age 5) in Vespasiano, Minas Gerais. Methods. Data were collected though cross-sectional household surveys to determine programmatic and demographic factors affecting user satisfaction with the PSF. Multivariate logistic modeling was used to estimate users' satisfaction with PSF units and agents and perceived access to PSF unit services. Chi-square and analysis of variance (ANOV A) tests were used to estimate statistical differences. Results. The majority of caretakers were satisfied with both their PSF unit and their PSF community health agent and had received at least one monthly home visit from the health agent. Satisfaction with both the health agent and the unit was positively associated with perceived access to the unit and frequency of agent home visits. Caretakers who reported that their PSF agent made one or more home visits per month were more likely to perceive the PSF unit as being "accessible" (or "sometimes accessible"). Conclusions. The current data are important indicators of population health in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and suggest that users' satisfaction with the PSF and perceptions about its accessibility can be improved by ensuring that all households receive at least one health agent home visit per month. These results could be applied to other parts of Brazil or Latin America to improve understanding of user perceptions of health systems. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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