Breast cancer screening in Primary Health Care in Brazil: a systematic review
ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze care strategies for breast cancer screening in Primary Health Care in Brazil. Methods: this is a systematic review following the Cochrane Collaboration recommendations. Results: among 355 manuscripts, five were eligible. The patient navigation program by Community Health Agent stood out with the best result, among the strategies: flexibility of goals considering viability; community engagement; team training; active search of the target population by Community Health Agent; request for mammography by physicians; actions integrated to women’s health; monitoring of mammography results, absent users, and population coverage by physician and nurse; and assessment of criteria for requesting screening mammography by means of an information system. The population coverage rate in the program ranged from 23% to 88%. Conclusions: Primary Health Care in Brazil presents devices with potential to induce the production of care for breast cancer screening.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem
2021
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672021000300307 |
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