Monitoring the health conditions of beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program: an integrative review

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https://doi.org/10.21727/rpu.v16i3.5052

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Objective: to analyze studies relating to monitoring the health conditions of beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) through Primary Health Care (PHC) with the aim of identifying possible difficulties that make it impossible to monitor the PBF's health conditions. Methods: integrative review of articles using the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), SCOPUS, Web of Science, Academic Search Premier and Embase databases. Through the Regional Portal of the Virtual Health Library (VHL), the databases used were two: Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS) and the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), through National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health (PubMed). The inclusion criteria were articles obtained in full, from the last 10 years and in any language. Results: The challenges imposed on PBF beneficiaries identified in the review were: Difficulties in accessing health services, shortage of professionals and professional qualifications and lack of knowledge of health conditions. Final considerations: Despite the challenges imposed, the PBF has enormous potential for social transformation, through continuous investments in territorial improvements and adaptations, associated with evaluation and monitoring processes, it is believed that it is possible to create strategies to expand the reach of positive results of the PBF program.

Keywords: Bolsa Família; Health Care Monitoring; Basic Health Care; Basic Health Unit.

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Yasmin Farias de Souza, Universidade Federal Fluminese (UFF)

Assistente Social. Discente do curso de Mestrado da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brasil. 

Ana Lúcia Abrahão, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Docente da Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso Costa e do Programa Acadêmico em Ciências do Cuidado em Saúde da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brasil.

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2025-10-31

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Vol. 16 No. 3 (2025): Revista Pró-UniverSUS V 16 N 3

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