| dc.description.abstract | Primary Care, the gateway for most users to the Unified Health System (SUS), has a
strong relationship with preventive medicine, where there is a strong focus on
preventing and controlling the population's illness. However, the SUS, since its
creation, has demonstrated profound difficulties in offering care to the Brazilian
population, impacting the services provided. Thus, over the years, programs were
created with the aim of strengthening Primary Care, the Mais Médicos Program (PMM)
being one of them. In this sense, this study evaluates the effect of the Mais Médicos
Program, specifically the Emergency Provision axis, on ambulatory care sensitive
conditions hospitalizations (ICSAP). For this, a more recent public policy evaluation
method, developed by Callaway and Sant’Anna (2021), was used, aiming to have a
greater robustness of the causal effect generated by the PMM. It was found that the
Mais Médicos Program initially impacted an increase in the rate of ambulatory care
sensitive conditions hospitalizations, with a downward trend over the years. The
discussion based on this result suggests that the greater availability of medical
professionals impacted on an increase in the demand for consultations and,
consequently, on an increase in hospitalizations. | en |
