ArticleAfrican journal of primary health care & family medicine2020
Measuring the quality of primary care in national health surveys: Lessons from Brazil.
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- Enhancing healthcare utilization and reducing preventable hospitalizations: exploring the healthcare-seeking propensity of patients with non-communicable diseases in Rural China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A Decade of Monitoring Primary Healthcare Experiences through the Lens of Inequality.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The quality of migrant patients' primary healthcare experiences and patient-centered medical home achievement by community health centers: results from the China greater bay area study.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Primary care experiences among Brazilian adults: Cross-sectional evidence from the 2019 National Health Survey.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundSouth Africa started to lead the cross-culturally validation and use of the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT) in Africa, when Professor Bresick filled a gap, as this continent was until then the only one that had never used it in evaluation of primary health care facilities until 2015.
aimThe authors aim to demonstrate that after the consolidation of Bresick's team to an African version of PCAT, it had been adapted to household survey in Brazil.
methodsIn this letter, authors reflect on how Brazil had adapted PCAT to a national random household survey with Brazilian National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) - the Brazilian Census Bureau.
resultsIn the the beginning of 2019, Brazilian Ministry of Health brought back the PCAT as the official national primary health care assessment tool. Brazilian National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) included a new module (set of questions) in its National Health Survey (PNS-2019) and collected more than 100 000 households interviews in about 40% of the country's municipalities. This module had 25 questions of the Brazilian validated version of the adult reduced PCAT.
conclusionWe believe that IBGE innovation with the Ministry of Health can encourage South Africa to establish a similar partnership with its National Institute of Statistics (Statistics South Africa) for the country to establish a baseline for future planning of primary health care, for decision-making based on scientific evidence.
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