The Family Health Strategy in the State of Pernambuco: evaluation of team structure by population size

The study aimed to evaluate the structure of Health Family Teams of the state of Pernambuco by population size in the year of 2009. Were applied structured questionnaires to 154 teams, from 24 counties, and evaluated items related to instruments, educational materials, physical space, medicines, vaccines, besides the human resources available. The results showed that the physical spaces of the teams were better evaluated in small-sized municipalities (p=0,032). Only 5,6% of the teams meet all the structure requirements, and the component human resources pointed out the precariousness of the professional bonds, mainly in mid-sized municipalities of the state.本研究旨在评估2009年巴西伯南布哥州（Pernambuco）家庭健康团队（Health Family Teams）按人口规模划分的配置结构。研究向来自24个县的154支团队发放了结构化问卷，评估内容涵盖工具设备、宣教材料、物理空间、药品、疫苗及可获得的人力资源等相关条目。结果显示，人口规模较小的市镇所属团队的物理空间配置获得了更高评分（p=0.032）。仅有5.6%的团队满足全部结构配置要求，人力资源维度暴露出职业雇佣关系不稳定性的问题，该情况在该州中等规模市镇中尤为显著。