Territorialização dos serviços de saúde pública no município de Delmiro Gouveia – Alagoas/Brasil

Abstract

The research in the development phase of the Graduate Program in Geography makes a study on the territorialization of public health in the municipality of Delmiro Gouveia / AL and the accessibility of the population to health services. Thus, the purpose is to map the basic health units in Delmiro Gouveia, analyzing the professionals and the specialties that compose it, based on theoretical subsidies from the geography of health to understand how the population has access to public health care. Public health services in the municipality are unevenly distributed when comparing rural and urban areas. The consequence is people's lack of access to services, which leads the research to contribute to a study of sustainable development of basic public services. In this sense, it is important to understand how the population has access to the Unified Health System (SUS), what tools the city uses to expand services, which professionals are used to serve the population. These are some of the questions that must be answered in order to identify intervention tools in the municipal public domain, capable of providing inhabitants with access to quality care in accordance with medical needs.