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What are the challenges for the qualification of Primary Care in the view of municipal managers?

In the last years, the Primary Care has provided many advances in the community health, however, many challenges still remain. This paper seeks to analyze the main challenges of Primary Care in the view of the municipal health managers, identifying and analyzing descriptively the five most common ones at the levels national, regional and by stratum of municipalities. It was held a quantitative approach with the analysis of secondary data of the Primary Health Care, derived from the databases of the Ministry of Health. It was noted that many challenges are recurrent and others are shown in some specific region or stratum, suggesting their dimension in the local context.

Primary Health Care; Family health; Health evaluation


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