The aim of this stydy was to discuss features related to the formative process for managers andprofessionals of Primary Health Care (PHC) in adolescent health care. It was a qualitative researchinvolving seven managers and 17 professionals from PHC (semi-structured interviews), tenprofessionals from the Family Health Support Group and 47 adolescents (focus groups). The analysiswas based in the hermeneutic-dialectical perspective and the concept of comprehensive care was usedto guide the theoretical debate. Professionals and managers find that undergraduate and continuingeducation is incipient, not covering comprehensive care. The adolescents highlighted the lack ofpreparation of professionals as obstacles in their linkage to the service. Larger investments are neededin the professional education as a way to improve the practice of PHC services, in order to make themmore coherent and appropriate to the logic of care and the needs/lifestyles of adolescents.
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