Social acceptance of Primary Health Care technologies: a scoping review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34019/1809-8363.2022.v25.35250Keywords:
Patient acceptance of health care, Biomedical technology, Culturally appropriate technology, Primary Health Care, ReviewAbstract
Alma-Ata defined Primary Health Care (PHC) as “essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology”1. In spite of this, there are evidences that technologies used in PHC often lack social acceptability – a concept seldom investigated. This research sought to understand the social acceptability of PHC technologies, in Brazil and in the whole world, through a Scoping Review, in order to map key concepts, types of evidence, and gaps in the research field by systematically searching, selecting, and synthesizing existing knowledge. Searches for articles from 1978-2019 were conducted in Academic search premier, CINAHL complete, Medline - PubMed, SciELO, Science Direct, Web of Science and BVS/Lilacs (and also in the references’ lists and one complementar search via Google and Google Scholar). From the 13,874 articles identified, 201 were selected for data extraction and analysis. It was discovered a wide variety of technologies, presented thematically, and 7 meaning groups for “social acceptability” in the definitions.