A Política de Educação Permanente em Saúde: uma análise da implementação do Plano Cearense de Educação Permanente em Saúde (2019-2022)

Abstract

In Brazil, health is a social right provided for in the Federal Constitution of 1988, having as principles the integral, universal and equal access to all Brazilian society. Public policies that are implemented in the area of public health trigger multiple proposals to make the constitutional goals around health possible. Within this Brazilian public health ecosystem is the Permanent Health Education Policy (PEPS), which acts to train and develop SUS workers. PEPS is developed at national, state and municipal levels. Discussing points that reveal determinant factors in the process of elaboration, execution and evaluation of State actions for society is essential to understand its limitations and advances through the policy action for its target audience. This paper aims to analyze the implementation of the Permanent Health Education Plan (PCEPS) of Ceará State, from the Anatomy analytical model of the general implementation process. Aiming at the fulfillment of the intended objectives, the methodological proposal employed in the research is qualitative and exploratory, and is outlined as bibliographic and documentary. The analytical model applied in the research is the “Anatomy of the general implementation process”, from the contextualization about the elaboration, actors involved and purposes of the PCEPS, correlating the analytical dimensions of the referred methodology and the aspects observed in the plan. Reflections on the facilities and impediments to the implementation of PCEPS are obtained. Among the results obtained, there are some weaknesses around the mechanisms of the PCEPS for implementation, especially given the permanent nature of the theme with the SUS, such as: the lack of transparency about information about the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.