Processamento e devolução dos dados para as estratégias de saúde da família: o papel da vigilância epidemiológica

Abstract

In health it is necessary to plan actions based on people's needs and according to their peculiarities. For this to happen, it is necessary to organize the work processes based on concrete particular location data, transforming them into health information to be worked and used in planning specific actions and investment in specific public policies for better quality life of this population. Justified this quest due to a failure in the collection system and data return submitted under the public health under surveillance. The research aims to analyze which elements are related to the performance of epidemiological surveillance in the processing and return of data to the network services. This is a descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach, through recorded interviews, which was conducted with four managers involved in epidemiological surveillance, in a medium-sized municipality of Rio Grande do Sul Central Region. As a result of incorporation presents the epidemiological surveillance of the management of daily processing and return of data to the health strategies of the family, for the formulation of public policy in Municipal Health and the use of planning tools, health indicators proposed the Ministry of Health.