| |  | Contandriopoulos, André-Pierre | Avaliando a institucionalização da avaliação read moreAbstract: This article approaches the challenges posed by the need to conceive and implement a culture of evaluation. For this purpose it discusses the relations and differences between evaluative research, normative evaluation and decision-making. The analysis shows the capacity to institutionalize the evaluation as a tool for improving the health system to be self-contradictory, for presupposing that the information produced by an evaluation helps to rationalize the decision processes. It is affirmed that the degree to which the results of an evaluation are taken into consideration by decision-makers varies according to their credibility, theoretical foundation and pertinence. What can be observed is that the actors occupying different positions are unable to agree upon the pertinence of the results produced by the evaluation. For turning evaluation into a core-strategy for transforming the health system the author suggests to create the conditions for a truly critical judgment through implementation of strategies that favor professional qualification and instruction, debates, reflections and the opening of new horizons of intervention. Institutionalize the evaluation implies in the first place in questioning the capacity of this evaluation to produce the information and judgments the decision-makers need for improving the performance of the SUS.  This article is not yet tagged | 2006 |
| | | Hartz, Zulmira M. | Integralidade da atenção e integração de serviços de saúde: desafios para avaliar a implantação de um "sistema sem muros" read moreAbstract: The premise of this paper is that comprehensive health care is a major component in the investigation and evaluation of health services and systems, structured as inter-organizational health care networks articulating clinical, functional, normative, and systemic dimensions in their operationalization and based on the understanding that no organization combines all the necessary resources and capabilities to solve the health problems of a population with its various life cycles. Given the complex nature of this "system without walls", eliminating barriers to access in the various health care levels in response to local and regional health, we take this opportunity to share a few "preliminary lessons" from our experience and from the literature on integrated health services which may interest researchers and managers concerned with the implementation of such services. This article is not yet tagged | 2004 |
| | | Souza, Luis E. | O uso de pesquisas na formulação de políticas de saúde: obstáculos e estratégias read moreAbstract: Management of a health system requires knowledge of the health situation and administration, among other factors. The use of scientific knowledge by health policy-makers is thus recommendable. However, policy-making processes and scientific practices themselves often appear to pose obstacles to the actual utilization of research results. Many such obstacles result from reifying views of the decision-making process and objectivist conceptions of science. We propose a re-conceptualization of health policy-making and scientific practices based on the language game notion. The use of research results would thus become an exchange of significant metaphors between policy-makers and scientists. Adoption of pluralistic research systems and intensification of interfaces between researchers and policy-makers in a context of knowledge-sharing would be the main strategies to improve this exchange. Such strategies would be efficient to the extent that they succeeded in drawing science and common sense closer together, thereby transforming both. This article is not yet tagged | 2004 |
| | | Contandriopoulos, André-Pierre | Is the institutionalization of evaluation sufficient to guarantee its practice? read moreAbstract: Sorry no abstract available for this article This article is not yet tagged | 1999 |
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