Expanded Family Health Center: an analysis based on fundamental teamwork concepts and attributes

Abstract

Primary Care work is based on sharing and meeting various knowledge to achieve comprehensiveness. In this rationale, the Extended Family Health and Primary Care Center (NASF-AB) acts as a strategy for teamwork. We aimed to investigate the NASF-AB work process from the fundamental teamwork concepts and attributes. This evaluative, qualitative study was developed from 2018 to 2020, observing the NASF-AB and family health teamwork process, and focus groups with 43 professionals from both teams. Our analysis considered NASF-AB theoretical, methodological, and operational concepts. The results refer to a work attentive to the particularities of the territory aligned with health responsibility, besides recognizing NASF-AB support in clients’ autonomy by establishing a bond.