Quais os possíveis impactos do Previne Brasil para o trabalho e educação da fonoaudiologia na Atenção Primária à Saúde?

Abstract

The Family Health (FH) Support Centers incorporated various specialties not included in the minimum teams of the Family Health Strategy, among them, speech-language-hearing professionals. FH Support Centers organization is based on team cooperation, a theoretical-methodological framework linked to the ideals of SUS, public health, and the Brazilian Health Reform. The review of the National Primary Care Policy (PNAB) in 2017 began the process of omitting team cooperation in FH Support Centers and made unclear the role and coverage of these Centers. In 2019, Previne Brasil, which instituted the new funding for Primary Health Care (PHC), ended specific funding for FH Support Centers, threatening their continuity in the municipalities, completely changing their work process, and emptying its character of team cooperation. Hence, this communication aims, in light of the literature, to discuss the possible impacts of Previne Brasil on the work and education of speech-language-hearing sciences in PHC. Thus, the following are discussed in the text: the historical aspects of Family Health in Brazil; advances in speech-language-hearing practice after the implementation of FH Support Centers; the dismantling of FH Support Centers after the PNAB review and the establishment of Previne Brasil; and the need to reposition speech-language-hearing sciences in society and in the health sector, approaching entities that fight for the defense of life through the democratization of health, the state, and the society, as well as the Brazilian Health Reform movement.