Community health workers perspective on the COVID-19 impact on primary health care in Northeastern Brazil

• Main Authors: Anya Pimentel Gomes Fernandes Vieira-Meyer (Author), Franklin Delano Soares Forte (Author), José Maria Ximenes Guimarães (Author), Sidney Feitoza Farias (Author), André Luiz Sá de Oliveira (Author), Maria Socorro de Araújo Dias (Author), Claudete Ferreira de Souza Monteiro (Author), Fernando José Guedes da Silva Júnior (Author), Ana Patrícia Pereira Morais (Author), Maria Rosilene Candido Moreira (Author), Márcia C. Castro (Author), Aisha Khizar Yousafzai (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract: This article evaluates the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on the Family Health Strategy (FHS) team's work routines across a range of northeast Brazilian cities as perceived by community health workers (CHW). Data on COVID-19, CHW activities, and FHS teams were collected in 2021 by a struct...