"Sistemas de informação em saúde: a percepção e a avaliação dos profissionais diretamente envolvidos na atenção básica de Ribeirão Preto / SP" / “Health Information Systems: Perception and Evaluation by the Professionals Involved in Basic Care in Ribeirão Preto / SP.”

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

For a health service to have up-to-date and structured information about the health conditions of the population in its territory, an appropriate planning of its actions is necessary, together with the use of viable and feasible tools in its daily routine. Thus, analysis of the information available is important, especially related to, and obtained from, local indicators. Most of this information originates from some health information system (HIS). The objective of HIS is to facilitate the formulation and evaluation of health policies, plans and programs, subsidizing the decision-making process in order to contribute to the improvement of the situation of individual and collective health. To describe the perception of the different professionals belonging to Family Health Nuclei involved in the management of HIS used in these units in the municipality of Ribeirão Preto. This was an exploratory and descriptive study based on a qualitative approach using semi-structured individual recorded interviews with 37 health professionals such as doctors, nurses, nurse technicians and community health agents belonging to 5 teams of the Family Health Nuclei of Ribeirão Preto. The interviews were held between January and March 2006 and the content analysis method was used to achieve the expected results. For basic care there is the Basic Care Information System (SIAB in the Portuguese acronym) as the major, or the only informatized, HIS used at Family Health Units. The SIAB is the source of information and provides most of the tools and the forms filled out by the team. Most of the health professionals use it as a powerful work tool for improving the epidemiological profile, but this tool is under-utilized. According to the professionals, this under-utilization is due to limitations and faults of the system, which is purely quantitative, to the fragility of the team’s knowledge and lack of preparation for exploring its full capacity, to the lack of training, and to the lack of incentive of data analysis at the local level. A good HIS depends on the periodicity of the flow of data supply and on judicious filling of the collection instrument. In addition, it should produce viable reports and results to be used in the planning of the activities of each unit. However, the persons involved in its maintenance need to have a clear view of its possibilities so that its potential may be extracted and transformed into a local reality, permitting the detection of priority focal points, leading to a planning of the activities of each unit and to guidance and adequate execution of team actions. The SIAB presents weaknesses and deficiencies but some professionals also present difficulties in manipulating it both regarding feeing of HIS data and a critical analysis of its reports, since these procedures are not routinely adopted at the units.

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family health program programa saúde da família primary health care information systems sistemas de informação cuidados primários de saúde

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