Serviços mínimos de Atenção Primária à Saúde em contextos de crises

Primary Health Care faced atypical challenges during the covid-19 pandemic, requiring a reorganization of the entire network of health services, which must maintain comprehensive and longitudinal care for users while preserving the health of servers and managing resources. From this scenario emerges the discussion about “minimum services” in periods of crisis in the context of Primary Health Care: what defines them, how to prioritize and make them feasible. This study seeks to elucidate these issues through a literature review on the organization of Primary Health Care services in crisis contexts, and the report and discussion based on the local experience in the Primary Health Care network in a Brazilian capital during the coping with the covid-19 pandemic. The research on Minimum Services in Primary Health Care pointed out a lack of literature. The concept of minimum services is proposed and, based on this, the concepts of context-dependents minimum services and population dependent minimum services, in addition to the reflection about the organization of these services in a Primary Care Health service, with emphasis on the incorporation of new technologies in the service and management of the service in a collegiate manner.