Atenção básica no município de Áurea-RS: território e territorialização?

Abstract

This work aims to understand how occurred regionalization process of the Family Health Program in the city of Golden / RS, small town in the northern region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The methodology was based on the different literature contributions on the concept of territory and territorial health policies and especially in studies by geographers who are engaged in analyzing the territorial approach in health policies and programs. The main categories of analysis were found regarding the Family Health Program as a new health care model in basic attention to organization of the Unified Health System in the territory. The research required a variety of methodological strategies such as: conducting a literature review in order to understand how geographers fall within the framework of analysis of the territorial approach in health policies, analysis of official documents on health policies and interviews with actors- key. With regard to the geographers of studies on the subject territory and territorial found out that there are few studies with different approaches, but significant to understand the territorial approach and the approach of geography and health. It was found that the PSF of the deployment process in the municipality was carried out without taking into account the characteristics of the population and their living conditions, and based on what precisely geographers criticize the delimitation of areas for implementation of policies and the territorialization as the description of the clientele based on maps that present limits of performance of health teams. The work shows that there have been important advances in the conduct and organization of the Unified Health System, with respect to primary health care and access to health services, however you still need further studies on the subject, in this sense the participation Geographer becomes paramount.