Vigilância Sanitária: a necessidade de reorientar o trabalho e a qualificação em um município

Abstract

Introduction: The work of Health Surveillance should be expanded to transpose the inspection dimension, through the development of multiprofessional, educational and communicative activities, with social participation, integration with the Family Health Strategy and based on health information systems. To do this, Health Surveillance workers need to be qualified and work difficulties must be overcome. Objective: To verify the development of these activities, to relate them to the professional qualification and to identify the difficulties for the work. Method: Descriptive and quantitative study, carried out with the application of a questionnaire to 54 VISA employees of a municipality. A simple descriptive statistic was performed with the variables professional qualification, work process activities and difficulties. Results: It was verified that the activities were not developed by most workers, except for multiprofessional work (81.5%), and that the reported difficulties, such as the lack of vehicles (36.4%), exist in other services. The professional qualification (46.3%) expressed a relation only to the multiprofessional performance. Conclusions: It is necessary to reorient work and professional qualification to enable the development of activities that, in addition to supervision and control, make up the work of Health Surveillance.