Family Health Strategy: Reflections focusing on community health workers
Miriely Pinto Fontan,
Alan Patrício Da Silva
Abstract:The Family Health Strategy (ESF) translates into the introduction of a preventive care model, oriented towards the family in its physical and social environment as the nucleus of action, with the aim of promoting health. The actions carried out within the context of this health service, which is the population's gateway to Primary Health Care (PHC), are the responsibility of a minimum ESF team, made up of a doctor, nurse, nursing technician and Community Health Agents (ACS), the latter of whom occupy a more pr… Show more
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