O trabalho do agente comunitário de saúde: relevância para o bom resultado da Estratégia da Saúde da Família

Abstract

The Family Health Strategy (FHS) is an element of reorientation of primary health care (PHC), and it is inserted into the Community Health Agent (CHA), key figure of this restructuring. It was created with the aim of replacing the traditional model of care in order to reaffirm the principles of the Unified Health System (SUS) - universality, decentralization, integration and community participation. The aim of this study was to identify and describe the important work of the Community Health Agent (CHA) in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in the light of documentary analysis relating to their work process. It is a descriptive, qualitative, literature review, which sought the essence of the speech of the authors searched for a better understanding of the role of ACS and its relevance in the work of the health team. Inclusion criteria were articles in journals and books published between 1990 to 2011 and referred to the important work of the ACS in the ESF. After careful selection, a total of fifty articles, abstracts were read and selected the most relevant to the topic, to compose the essay. We appreciated thirty-three works that have shaped this research. The same results showed that the ACS is a key to the consolidation of ESF and that requires investment in training and working conditions of these individuals. So the ESF represents a breakthrough in the history of Brazil's health and the role of ACS is critical for consolidation, not only for facilitating the access of families to the actions and health services, but to establish permanent contact with the community and make it.