EVALUATION OF THE WORK PROCESS OF FAMILY HEALTH TEAMS IN A MUNICIPALITY IN MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL

Abstract The study had the goal of assessing the organization of the work process of family health teams in a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It was a quantitative, cross-sectional analytical research performed in 2014. We investigated the forms for the Self-Assessment for the Improvement in the Access and Quality of Primary Health Care of 73 teams. A total of 14 items of the subdimension organization of the work process were considered, and they were scored from 0 to 10, with 0 meaning complete inadequacy and 10 meaning complete adequacy of the team to the assessed pattern. The teams were classified from the ‘highly unsatisfactory’ pattern to the ‘highly satisfactory’ pattern. The significance level of the statistical analyses was set as values of p