# Interventions of Brazil's more doctors program through continuing education for Primary Health Care

## TL;DR

This study examines how Brazil's More Doctors Program improves primary healthcare through continuing education and physician interventions.

## Contribution

The study provides new insights into how physician training in Brazil's More Doctors Program influences primary healthcare practices.

## Key findings

- 57% of physicians worked in Brazil's Northeast Region, which had the most interventions (66.8%).
- Four key constructs emerged from the analysis: women's health, child health, chronic diseases, and mental health.
- Interventions aligned with Brazil's Ministry of Health programmatic actions and emphasized teamwork and quality of care.

## Abstract

Brazil's More Doctors Program, in its training axis, aims to improve medical training for Primary Health Care through interventions related to the reality of the territory. The research presented here analyzed the interventions implemented by Brazil's More Doctors Program physicians, members of the Family Health Continuing Education Program, and the relationship with Primary Health Care programmatic actions.

The research conducted made use of Text and Data Mining and content analysis. In total, 2,159 reports of interventions from 942 final papers were analyzed. The analysis process was composed of the formation of the corpus; exploration of the materials through text mining; and analysis of the results by inference and interpretation.

It was observed that 57% of the physicians worked in the Northeast Region, which was also the region with the most interventions (66.8%). From the analysis of the bigrams, trigrams, and quadrigrams, four constructs were formed: “women's health,” “child health,” “chronic non-communicable diseases,” and “mental health.” Terms related to improving access, quality of care, teamwork, and reception were also present among the N-grams.

The interventions carried out are under the programmatic actions recommended by the Brazilian Ministry of Health for Primary Health Care, also addressing cross-cutting aspects such as Reception, Teamwork, Access Improvement, and Quality of Care, which suggests that the training experience in the Family Health Continuing Education Program reflects on the way these professionals act.