Since that the units of ready attendance had resurged, with new roupagem and also distinct functions, concerns on the part of managers and sanitaristas how much to the true benefit of these services had also appeared. The main factor that convinces many managers to implant a UPA? Unit of Ready Attendance comes of the comment of the extreme demand in the doors of the hospital emergencies and for the constatao of that great part of this demand is formed by people whom they do not require of characterized attendance as ‘ ‘ urgency or emergncia’ ‘. Although this phenomenon is considered ‘ ‘ efeito’ ‘ for many specialists, for the managers who suffer day-by-day with this problem, the adhesion will be the first idea-force to be considered as argument for the implantation of the UPAs or any another denomination that characterizes this type of attendance, as is the case of So Paulo that has the name of LOVES? Medical assistance Ambulatorial. These units have function to give medical assistance of low and average complexity, ambulatorial nature e, still, to give to the first atendimentos in the cases of bigger gravity, proceeding the clinical stabilization and the guiding to the reference hospital. As the factor that explains part of the existence of the first one is the lack of structure or low the quality of the net of basic attention. This consists of the aspect most serious of the analysis, therefore it has estruturante root.
This is also the factor of bigger debate in fruns of health, therefore it has who defends that the resources destined to the units of ready attendance can be directed for basic attention e, with this, to finish or to reduce the deficit in this segment. It can be a part of the solution, but she is not all. Why? The conceptual intention of the basic attention is the promotion of the health, the control and combat of all the factors and vectors that can cause damages to the health.
