Evaluation of the longitudinality in Primary Health Care units

Study to evaluate the effectiveness of Primary Health Care directed to children through the longitudinality attribute, in health units with and without Family Health Strategy in a western municipality of Paraná State. Descriptive quantitative, research, with the use of the data collection instrument PCATool - Brazil, child version, applied to 61 family members of children under 12 years old. The longitudinality was best evaluated in the health unit with regard to the family health, demonstrating the relevance of deep changes in the work process in the Family Health Units, for the improvement of the attention quality and an effective deployment of the proposed guidelines by the Strategy.