Factors affecting access to the Family Health Stategy teams in Brazil

The article aims to analyze access to teams certified by National Program for Access and Quality Improvement in Primary Care. The category studied was the potential access with two dimensions: embracement and availability. Data obtained from selected issues of instruments of External Evaluation of the program were sources of information and generate scores and three strata. The results show that favorable factors to the potential access were located in the Southeast, in capitals, bigger towns, and larger number of teams by health unit. Despite progresses, the results address to the need for policies and actions to qualify the care provided, especially in small towns.