Abstract
This article aims to develop a reflective theoretical study with an emphasis on the actions, challenges and recommendations of practices for the prevention, control and monitoring of PHC disease. The COVID-19 pandemic has been demanding a remodeling of structures, not only in hospital care, but, especially in interventions in communities and their social, urban and structural problems. The article highlights the work process and new technical and dynamic incorporations for prevention, surveillance and monitoring imposed by SARS-CoV2 on primary health care, which must also guarantee access to essential care. As it allows thinking about the most feasible forms of action, this article recognizes the principles of action in the health system, offering to managers and health professionals, through the interlocution between related studies, several measures that can help in assistance of pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic changed the course of some health policies in the world. Patient-centered care requires a change in perspective towards a concept of community-centered care. As the primary health care is the first level of contact for individuals, family and community in a health system, constituting the preferred gateway to the care process, it is expected that the reflections raised by this article will contribute to an analysis that answers the main public health issues from the perspective of primary health care, preserving its stability, avoiding the disintegration of its actions and maintaining its functionality with the strengthening of local and community actions.
Highlights
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the disease named as COVID-19, caused by the new corona virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-COV-2 as a pandemic
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the disease named as COVID-19, caused by the new corona virus SARS-COV-2 as a pandemic
Data collection was based on the Virtual Health Library, using the following descriptors: COVID-19, Primary Health Care, surveillance, management
Summary
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the disease named as COVID-19, caused by the new corona virus SARS-COV-2 as a pandemic. COVID-19 is a respiratory infection which was first detected in Wuhan, China, a region of origin different from previous pandemics viruses (Lipsitch, Swerdlow & Finelli, 2020). The rapid spread of the disease showed the vulnerability of health care to combat the pandemic, from health policies to the organization of services (Freitas, Napimoga & Donalisio, 2020). World leaders make an effort to contain the spread of the virus through a variety of actions that include regional blockages, travel restrictions and social distance and isolation in order to reduce fatalities and try to maintain the capacity of health services. The unprecedented increase in healthcare demand and the lack of hospital supplies, technological equipment and well-trained professionals has impacted the structure of healthcare assistance and, its process and results
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