EVALUATION OF THE “MAIS MÉDICOS” (“MORE DOCTORS”) PROGRAM AS A STRENGTHENING POLICY OF PRIMARY HEALTHCARE

• Main Authors: Silvania Moraes Costa, Tuany Santos Souza, Flavia Rocha Brito, Alba Benemérita Alves Vilela, Adriana Alves Nery, Ismar Eduardo Martins Filho
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia 2017-07-01
• Series: Revista Saúde.com
• Subjects: Family Health Strategy; Health Policy; Primary Health Care
• Online Access: http://www.uesb.br/revista/rsc/ojs/index.php/rsc/article/view/440/469

The “Mais Médicos” (“More Doctors”) Program in Brazil aims to solve the shortage of doctors by providing Brazilian and foreign professionals to work in cities with difficult access and marked socioeconomic vulnerability. This study aims to describe existing researches on the implementation of the “Mais Médicos” (More Doctors) Program on Primary Healthcare. This is a descriptive research, in the form of an integrative review of literature according to data collection in the online databases: BVS and Scielo, with interrelations of Boolean operators and and or. The studies analyzed are: opinion articles, editorials, open space technology and debates, denoting the scarcity of original research carried out in this area. It is perceived that SUS (“Brazilian Unified Health System”) needs to develop much more to guarantee the universal right to health, since the population, besides the necessity of more doctors, also needs better perspectives of health and social justice.