Abstract
Introduction: Sanitary surveillance (SS) is aimed at the risk associated with products and services and is part of the activities related to Primary Health Care (PHC) in its structure and processes. Objectives: To analyze the perception of SS professionals on the sanitary conditions (SC) of PHC services. Methods: Professionals of Sanitary surveillance teams Participated of a Focus Group (FG) of four Sanitary Districts of Salvador. The reports were analyzed based on documents and regulations of the Ministry of Health (MOH). Results: The participants of the FG associated SC to health risks, highlighting problems regarding the structure of services and provision of equipment/materials for actions under the PHC. They presented strategies to minimize risks such as preventive maintenance of equipment, supply of materials for the provision of care, and monitoring and organization of the work process in an appropriate manner. They considered persistence as an important trait for the work of SS professionals to achieve the minimization of health risks of workers and users in the PHC. Conclusions: The data collection technique of FG enabled the discussion of the topic and the reflection of professionals on their practices. However, it was found that for the implementation of FG, the focus on the theme is challenging. It is considered that it was difficult for SS professionals to address the possible implications of SC on PHC services and on the health of the population.
Highlights
Sanitary surveillance (SS) is aimed at the risk associated with products and services and is part of the activities related to Primary Health Care (PHC) in its structure and processes
The challenges in the management of the group concern the difficulty of being able to gather the professionals, mainly because they were from the same organ, in view of the possibility of causing an emptying of certain services in that specific moment
In contrast to Maldonado and collaborators (2013), who values interpersonal ties in the Focus Group (FG) as a positive aspect for the exchange of information during the use of this technique, due to the affinity of the participants and the fact that they belonged to the same group or community, this fact may imply a speech that was sometimes ratified by the participants without criticism on the subject addressed
Summary
Sanitary surveillance (SS) is aimed at the risk associated with products and services and is part of the activities related to Primary Health Care (PHC) in its structure and processes. Results: The participants of the FG associated SC to health risks, highlighting problems regarding the structure of services and provision of equipment/materials for actions under the PHC They presented strategies to minimize risks such as preventive maintenance of equipment, supply of materials for the provision of care, and monitoring and organization of the work process in an appropriate manner. The Unified Health System (SUS) is a policy of the State that is based on an expanded conception of health and a universalist perspective of the right to health It is operationalized by a set of actions for the protection, prevention, promotion, care and recovery of health that serves millions of Brazilians benefited by the Brazilian public system, on a daily basis, through sanitary surveillance actions, risk control, damage control, among others (Teixeira, Souza, Paim, 2014). Considering, the relevance of the discussion about the risks involved in the sanitary conditions, as an object of sanitary surveillance that are present in the structural, environmental and working conditions of the PHC, the present study sought to analyze how professionals of the sanitary surveillance have perceived the relationship between health conditions and risks related to primary health care services
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