Agente comunitário de saúde: elo entre a comunidade a equipe da ESF?

Abstract

The Community Health Agent is understood as the mediator / liaison between the community and the Family Health Team. He appeared in the Brazilian as a tool used to reduce the appalling maternal and child mortality indicators in Northeast Brazil Community Health Agent shall reside in the community where they work and this fact provides the creation of this bond with the community. This work arose from questions that arose about how the ACS can perform their actions effectively becoming a community's link to family health team. Thus this study aims to analyze the scientific production about a community health agent with emphasis on work-related dimensions that address the allocation of increasing the bond between the team and community, from 2005 until 2010. We used a literature search where they found 20 articles in full. And it appears that agents are fundamental to the reorganization of primary care, because they operate in different contexts by promoting health and minimizing injuries, however, we identified some difficulties in activities of these workers in primary care.