THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RECEPTION IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

Abstract

To carry out a literature survey about the importance of the host in primary health care. This is an integrative literature review. It was based on data from Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS) and Nursing Database (BDENF) via the Virtual Health Library (VHL), with the guiding question: "What does the literature address about the importance of embracement in primary health care? The descriptors were used: "Primary health care", "Reception" and "Health promotion", as inclusion criteria were considered: full text, Portuguese, Spanish and English language, which portrayed the theme under study, published in the years 2012 to 2022, and as exclusion criteria: duplicate texts, incomplete and that did not focus on the exposed theme. The descriptors were crossed through the Boolean operator "AND" for simultaneous search of the subjects. Thus, the reception should be performed by all employees who participate in the work process in primary health care. It should not be confused with the process of simple patient triage, nor should it have a pre-established schedule, nor be attributed to a specific professional category. This study concludes that the reception is a fundamental part for the care that is performed in basic health units, which through it weakens the biomedical model that still prevails in health institutions.