Have been enabled more than 2.4 thousand teams and 18 thousand agents. I was also published in the list of teams with double register in February.
the Ministry of health published, last Tuesday (29), ordinances that enable 2,460 family health Teams (ESF) and more 18,631 community health agents (ACS), to act in 159 municipalities. The measure authorizes the release of resources for the respective municipal funds, with the goal of broadening the access of the population to basic care. The Ministry works to strengthen family health strategy, which already has a coverage of more than 100 million people
.
the values passed to the municipalities are called Variable basic care floor, which provides an incentive that varies from R $ 76.8 billion to R $ 115.2 k per family health Team and $ 8.56 billion for community health agent, per year. Currently are ESF 31,883 and ACS 245,236 given in the country. Communities together, the teams develop actions of health promotion, prevention of wrongs, diagnosis and treatment, recovery, rehabilitation of
diseases.
the family health Programme is the main strategy of the Ministry of health to reorient the model of health care of the population from the primary. Multidisciplinary teams formed by a doctor, a nurse, a technician or nursing auxiliary and up to 12 community health agents meet the families of
given territory.
