ISSN: 2639-2038
Authors: Freitas MM*
This review paper aims to understand to what extend the primary healthcare is implementing social responsibility practices SR in Portugal and what are the areas concerned to prosecute the Millennium’s Development Goals. Originality of the study results of the objective to understand the role of the political guidelines in promoting social responsibility within healthcare sector. The outcomes produced by the study have contributed to help organization of health to fulfill one of the objectives set in the Agenda “Sustainable Development Goals SDG 2030â€, precisely, “17.17. Encourage and promote effective partnerships by involving the public sector, public-private and civil society, based on experience and search for partnerships strategiesâ€. The paper has searched to understand the object through identification, description and analyses of all studies available by Google during December 12 of 2020 and April 6 of 2021. The new knowledge generated presents an application potential in every country, including, in developing countries, because highlighted the important role of the primary healthcare on promoting sustainable development practices for a cohesive territories and equitable societies. To understand the object proposed by this study, we have applied a comprehensive model of analyze supported in qualitative techniques of analyze specially bibliography technique of analyze and documental technique of analyze specially during drawing phase of the data and the techniques of thematic analyze of content and structural analyze of content during the phase of treatment of the data. The outcomes have highlighted the three most important areas of social responsibility concerned by primary healthcare organizations in Portugal that are: quality of services, ethical values and integrative practices.
Keywords: Social Responsibility; Primary Healthcare; Portugal
