Access to vaccination room in primary health care services

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze the access to vaccination rooms in the Family Health Strategies of a municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil. This is a unique, qualitative case study carried out in 2015. The vaccination rooms were the units of analysis of the study. Semi structured interviews were conducted with 49 users and 30 health professionals and we observed the care routine in the vaccination room. The technique of thematic content analysis was used, with pre-established categories. The data demonstrated that access to vaccination rooms in primary health care presents obstacles, implying the exclusion of users to the immunization service, hence the importance of knowing the difficulties of accessing the service, in order to reorganize it and include vaccination to all target audiences of the National Immunization Program.