Integralidade na atenção à saúde da criança: percepção e prática de profissionais de ESF e gestores

Abstract

This paper presents parts of a research that was fulfield with Family Health Estrategies teams and municipal and State Child Health Policy managers with the goal of analyze how it is set the integral care of this population at these teams, to contribute with the work process qualification regarding the integral care of this populational segment in Santa Maria city. Between the weaknesses that were observed in the managers and professionals practice, it was found that the work process and the actions at the units of Family Health Estrategies do not present themselves fully inserted on the integrality principle and they don’t do every recommended actions on the State Child Health Policy and the Integral Child Health and Child Mortality Reduction Commitment Agenda. However, the potencial are that the professionals do some orientation considering the mental and hearig health of the children. As a quality of the manager process it is interesting to highlight that it organizes itself to keep a teaching calendar regarding the subject. It is considered that the challanges of the policy execution are to organize the working process of the units so that all children of the Family Health Estrategies territory can receive an integral and qualified care, that it becomes possible to detect psychological and developmental risks and to have an organized net of the integral assistance of Child Health and as a part of that, trained and engaged professionals to the integral health production.