The nutritionist insertion at primary health care: the Viçosa - MG health microregional case / A inserção do nutricionista na atenção primária:  o caso da microrregião de saúde de Viçosa - MG

AUTOR(ES)

Tarsis de Mattos Maia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

Primary health care is privileged locus for the realization of activities that invokes healthy food, including development of others actions characteristic to this level of complexity. In this case, approachment of problems related to food and nutrition is part of nutritionists work. The aim of this study is to identify manners of inserting nutritionists in primary health care in Viçosa (MG) microregional. It treats about a case explorative study in which were used quantity and quality techniques. In a complementary manner, semi-structured surveys, interviews and focus groups were applied to nutritionists (n=16) who worked in healths primary care establishment. Key-informants were interviewed and some municipal documents were analyzed. Results point to a mostly female group with high level in education. Realized activities were headed to clinical appointments and, at some cases, mainly related to Family Health strategy (SF), executing team activities and using already existent social equipments in the communities. Poor working conditions related to health centers physical structure and poor basic equipments for nutritionists work were mentioned, working difficulties also caused dissatisfaction. Characteriscally elements of work organization in SF like team-work, housing visits and proximity to health centers to were valued by nutritionists. The work was, in nutritionists perspective, related to positive elements in its conduction like professional value, recognizing and rewarding, but there were also disadvantageous elements. Those elements were related to politics hinders, local administration and health guidelines command, reflecting as a conflict perception about work . The nutritionists insertion to primary health care, such as its conduction at professional practice was the reflex of presence and influence of different models of healths attention, co-existing in the microregional cities.

ASSUNTO(S)

working condition condições de trabalho nutrição em saúde pública health occupations ocupações em saúde nutritionist primary health care public health saúde pública atenção primária à saúde nutrition nutricionista

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