Processos e práticas de monitoramento e avaliação da gestão governamental em secretarias municipais e estaduais de saúde

Abstract

How leaders and managers of Municipal and State Health Department evaluate and monitor their own government management? This thesis aimed to analyze information, opinions and speeches about processes and practices for evaluating and monitoring government management in Municipal and State Health Department. It is a study of multiple cases, with intertwined analytical levels and exploratory nature and with quantitative and qualitative approach. Semi-structured questionnaires were administered to 577 government leaders of Municipal Health Department (stratified systematic sample of 10.4% of the total) and to 24 leaders of State Health Departments (statistical sample, simple random and 88.8% of the total). In the qualitative study, was applied the technique of focus group with the participation of government officials from seven (7) State Health Departments, selected from a purposive sample, which included all Brazilian biggest regions and states with different population sizes. Proceeded then a synthetic analysis through triangulation of evidences, using as scope analysis the reference standard of Strategic Management Systems (SMS). In most of the cases, users of the produced information are still poorly defined and dispersed. The mass of information is more diverse and less selective, with inefficient broadcast time, a production tending to centralization and more widespread usage than specific. Few are the more specific and appropriate indicators and flags for the Health government management. There are specific and significant gaps in financial management, personnel and crisis situations. Despite the recognized incipience observed in the processes and practices of monitoring and evaluation of government management in the context of State and Municipal Health Departments, denoted conformation and establishment of communities of practice dedicated and implicated in this (inter) institutional acting perspective, with demands and initiatives that indicate a gradual consolidation of this (sub) area.