Descentralização: análise da avaliação do Programa Saúde da Família em Correia Pinto

Abstract

The theme of this article focuses on the social policies decentralization analysis, aiming to incorporate elements to reflection about its limits and potentialities. The study took as its empirical research objective the verification of responsibilities evaluation fulfillment of the family health program in Correia Pinto (SC) by the three state spheres. The data was collected in the City Health Department, dated 2006, from physical documents, such as forms and reports, computerized documents, such as Sistema de Informação de Atenção Básica (SIAB) (Basic Care Information System) and through individual and group queries. The researched showed that the program evaluation in the city and state spheres does not exist; as well it is restricted in a federal sphere, not fulfilling the legal responsibility provisions common among the spheres, pointing out the need for a decentralization structure maturation which does not occur in a complete way.