Abstract
Objective: To analyze through a narrative review about the current panorama of the integration process of Primary Health Care and Health Surveillance and its contribution in the health planning and evaluation process. Bibliographic review: The Unified Health System, based on the Organic Health Law (8,080/90), emerges with principles ensuring the universalization and decentralization of health being recognized for its benefits, however, it becomes a challenge for management due to its fragility and underfunding, influencing the planning and evaluation process in primary care. The SUS made it possible to create the Health Surveillance Secretariat, being a milestone in the decentralization of actions and organization in the process of evaluating and planning in primary care, however, although there are strategies to integrate surveillance into primary care, it was not effectively performed, characterizing an obstacle in the identification of health-disease determinants, in contrast to the principles proposed in Law No. 8,080. Final considerations: Final Faced with the challenges of integrating Health Surveillance into basic health and management, innovations are needed in the methods of planning and evaluating to assist decision-making of a given problem and assist in the reorganization of work, actions and health services.
Keywords: Health surveillance, Primary care, Health management.