Community health agents: strategies and consequences of their network of relationships and interactions

This study aimed to identify the strategies used by Community Health Agents on their relationships network and interactions to improve health care and its impact on a health center. The Grounded Theory was used as a methodological reference. Seventeen participants were interviewed between February a...

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Main Authors: Gabriela Marcellino de Melo Lanzoni, Caroline Cechinel, Betina Hörner Schlindwein Meirelles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Ceará 2014-02-01
Series:Rev Rene
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Online Access:https://www.periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/3097
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Caroline Cechinel
Betina Hörner Schlindwein Meirelles
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description This study aimed to identify the strategies used by Community Health Agents on their relationships network and interactions to improve health care and its impact on a health center. The Grounded Theory was used as a methodological reference. Seventeen participants were interviewed between February and April 2009, among professionals and users of a health center in a city from southern Brazil. Freedom of communication, being the bond and promoting a connection between the community and the professionals were identified as strategies to strengthen the network of relationships and interactions of the Community Health Agents, creating as consequences good relationships between the staff and users and facilitating access to the health unit. One concludes that the Community Agent is a tool in the bond formation with significant potential to facilitate access to the services offered in Primary Health Care, starting from a complex web of relationships and interactions.
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spelling doaj-art-7130ff97d37449d2a9eb5a8dfba485df2025-08-24T12:53:46ZengUniversidade Federal do CearáRev Rene1517-38522175-67832014-02-01151Community health agents: strategies and consequences of their network of relationships and interactionsGabriela Marcellino de Melo LanzoniCaroline CechinelBetina Hörner Schlindwein MeirellesThis study aimed to identify the strategies used by Community Health Agents on their relationships network and interactions to improve health care and its impact on a health center. The Grounded Theory was used as a methodological reference. Seventeen participants were interviewed between February and April 2009, among professionals and users of a health center in a city from southern Brazil. Freedom of communication, being the bond and promoting a connection between the community and the professionals were identified as strategies to strengthen the network of relationships and interactions of the Community Health Agents, creating as consequences good relationships between the staff and users and facilitating access to the health unit. One concludes that the Community Agent is a tool in the bond formation with significant potential to facilitate access to the services offered in Primary Health Care, starting from a complex web of relationships and interactions. https://www.periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/3097NursingFamily HealthPrimary Health CareInterpersonal RelationsCommunity Health Workers.
spellingShingle Gabriela Marcellino de Melo Lanzoni
Caroline Cechinel
Betina Hörner Schlindwein Meirelles
Community health agents: strategies and consequences of their network of relationships and interactions
Rev Rene
Nursing
Family Health
Primary Health Care
Interpersonal Relations
Community Health Workers.
title Community health agents: strategies and consequences of their network of relationships and interactions
title_full Community health agents: strategies and consequences of their network of relationships and interactions
title_fullStr Community health agents: strategies and consequences of their network of relationships and interactions
title_full_unstemmed Community health agents: strategies and consequences of their network of relationships and interactions
title_short Community health agents: strategies and consequences of their network of relationships and interactions
title_sort community health agents strategies and consequences of their network of relationships and interactions
topic Nursing
Family Health
Primary Health Care
Interpersonal Relations
Community Health Workers.
url https://www.periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/3097
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