Avaliação da qualidade do diagnóstico de desnutrição infantil efetuado pelas equipes da estratégia de saúde da família, Maceió – AL

Abstract

Evaluate the health services is an important process to the strengthening the doctrinal principles of the Unified Health System (SUS). Moreover, it is essential for the Primary Health Care (PHC) comply with its role in establishing a new model of care, based on health promotion and disease prevention. Based on this concept, we seek to evaluate the quality of diagnosis of malnutrition conducted in Family Health Units (USF), in the city of Maceió. This evaluation was performed using the conceptual basis established by Donabedian. In this study, were used the principles of structure and process based on the pillars of efficiency and effectiveness. When interviewing the professionals registered in the target units of this study, were explained difficulties with decisive role in the diagnosis of malnutrition, undermining, thereby, this process. Structural, socioeconomic and methodological aspects, emerged through the speech of the professionals interviewed. Finally, one can infer that this diagnosis seems not attain a quality standard, becoming, thus, inefficient and ineffective. Indeed, this judgment is only valid to contribute to the improvement of the service, because this is the role of quality assessment.