Oral Comunication Power Point fro Primary Care Assessment Tool, Providers apply in Uruguay. 28 june 2013, WONCA Praga Conference.

1. Applying Primary Care
Assessment Tools in Uruguay
Miguel Pizzanelli, Jacqueline Ponzo

2. Uruguay

3. Uruguay

4. Applying Primary Care
Assessment Tools in
Uruguay
UR-PCAT-PE / provider extended version 2011.

5. Primary Care Assessment
Tools

6. Primary care is now well understood as the basis for
rational health systems. Its components are well
known. A major challenge has been to translate the
broad concepts into characteristics that can be
measured. These concepts include first contact care,
person-focused care over time,
comprehensiveness, and coordination, as well as the
three related aspects of community orientation, family-
centeredness, and cultural competence.

7. Barbara Starfield and James
Macinko in Uruguay, November
2010

8. Training Residents

9. Interviews

10. Results
Scores obtained in each attribute of Primary Care (scale
from 1 to 10. Acceptable 6.6)
Acces / First Contact 4.9
Longitudinality / Ongoing Care 7.6
Coordination 7.6
Coordination / Information Systems 6.1
Comprehesiveness 8.5
Family Centeredness 8.2
Community Orientation 6.4
Culturally Competent 4.9

11. Conclusions
• This process will promote new capacity in
primary care research
• UR PCAT PE was effective to assess
primary care
• Encouraged reflection on practice and the
organization of the health service.

12. Barbara
Starfield
legacy