The Role of Health Professionals in Transforming Care: Resolutive Primary Health Care
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Primary Health Care (PHC) is globally recognized as the foundation of effective, efficient, and equitable health systems. Instituted by the World Health Organization in the Alma-Ata Declaration (1978), PHC serves as the preferred entry point to health systems, emphasizing comprehensiveness, continuity, coordination, and resolutiveness. In Brazil, the Family Health Strategy (ESF) exemplifies PHC implementation, showing significant progress in access and service organization. Health professionals are central actors in transforming health care, requiring technical, communicative, ethical, and interprofessional skills to promote health, prevent diseases, manage chronic conditions, and coordinate care networks. Resolutiveness—addressing the majority of population health problems within PHC—is a key quality indicator and directly linked to professional qualification and engagement. This essay discusses the role of health professionals in advancing resolutive PHC in Brazil, analyzing organizational, pedagogical, and social aspects that impact professional performance and the need to reorient care models toward person- and community-centered approaches.
Author: Mario Angelo Cenedesi Júnior1*, Regina Gabriela Caldas de Moraes2, Lancciane Nilian Celino Reis3, Cristiane de Castro Barcelos4, Warner Santos Dias5, Thaita Thaisi Zago6, Sérgio Raimundo Ernesto Machado7, Keylla Taís de Amorim8, Elessandro Ferreira Dutra9, Neide Moreira de Souza10, Rosangela Sakman Gato11, Célia Fabricio de Souza Rezende12
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7104053978
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