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Revista de Salud Pública

versão impressa ISSN 0124-0064

Resumo

DE SOUSA, Gutembergue S.; FERREIRA DA SILVA, Rodrigo L.  e  BRASIL-XAVIER, Marília. Leprosy and primary care: an evaluation study from a medical perspective. Rev. salud pública [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.3, pp.359-365. ISSN 0124-0064.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rsap.v20n3.56109.

Objective

To assess the presence and extent of essential attributes derived from primary health care in a leprosy control program.

Materials and Methods

This is an assessment of health programs, focused on leprosy and targeted at doctors working on control actions in a leprosy program of primary health care units. A questionnaire developed and validated in another study was used to measure the presence and scope of primary health care attributes in disease control. Data were entered into a database and statistical and descriptive analysis was carried out. This study was approved within the framework of CEP No. 1.128.385.

Results

Overall scores and essential attributes of leprosy control actions showed a high exposure to leprosy control actions in the studied city. Community's access, orientation and guidance attributes averaged below the cutoff point, demonstrating the existing weaknesses in the items that make up these attributes.

Conclusion

Despite the weaknesses identified, the study showed high orientation towards the development of leprosy control actions, according to the assessment made by doctors working in primary care.

Palavras-chave : Leprosy; delivery of health care; health care quality; acess; and; evaluation; public health; family practice (source: MeSH, NML).

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