Avaliação do programa mais médicos como política de fortalecimento da atenção básica

Abstract

The “Mais Médicos” (“More Doctors”) Program in Brazil aims to solve the shortage of doctors by providing Brazilian and foreign professionals towork in cities with difficult access and marked socioeconomic vulnerability. This study aims to describe existing researches on the implementation of the “Mais Médicos” (More Doctors) Program on Primary Healthcare. This is a descriptive research, in the form of anintegrative review of literature according to data collection in the online databases: BVS and Scielo, with interrelations of Boolean operatorsand and or. The studies analyzed are: opinion articles, editorials, open space technology and debates, denoting the scarcity of original research carried out in this area. It is perceived that SUS (“Brazilian Unified Health System”)needs to develop much more to guarantee the universal right to health, since the population, besides the necessity of more doctors, also needsbetter perspectives of health and social justice.