Contribuições do Programa Mais Médicos ao desempenho da Atenção Básica a partir de uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

The right to health becomes a right and duty of the State after the approval of the Brazilian Constitution in 1988 and the creation of the Unified Health System (UHS), leading to investments to access and organizational changes in basic care. However, a limiting factor in the expansion of population coverage is related to the lack and misdistribution of medical professionals in the primary health care scenarios. As a strategy to minimize such effects, the More Doctors Program (MDP) emerges in 2013. Objective: to carry out a literature review on MDP contributions to the performance of Primary Care. Methodology: This is a Literature Review, as an Integrative type of Review. To collect the data, the databases used were ScIELO, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed in the More Doctors Program Platform of Knowledge, were used as descriptors ""More Doctors Program"", ""Primary Health Care"", ""Primary Care"". As inclusion criteria were considered: scientific articles that focused on the MDP and its contributions to Primary Care. As exclusion criteria: publications that did not present original results, book chapters, case studies, theses and dissertations. For data processing the evaluation guides of each study items were used, for qualitative research was used the COREQ Instrument, for the quantitative studies was used STROBE. After applying the selection criteria, 23 articles were collected between June and July 2017. The data presentation and discussion werebased o nDonabedian analytical categories in three thematic axes: Structure; Processes and Results of the MDP.