A (re) significação do processo de trabalho utilizando dados epidemiológicos: desafios na educação permanente em saúde

Abstract

Objective: to understand the (re) significance of the work process among municipal health managers, based on the use of epidemiological data, having as a guiding device the Permanent Education in Health, to strengthen practices in the territories of Primary Health Care. Method: qualitative approach research, in the case of an action research, with the use of the Focal Group technique for the collection of data. The intervention occurred from August 2015 to January 2016, involving Coordinators of Administrative Regions, Health Policy Coordinators, Assistance Coordinators of Basic Health Units and Epidemiological Surveillance team, considered managers of a municipality in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul. This intervention was carried out by multiprofessional residents of the Management in Public Health Systems, with emphasis on Health Surveillance, of a Federal University. Results: emerged from the analysis of the research data three units of meaning, who conducted the study: The fragility in the way of designing and using the Health Information Systems; Permanent Education in the process of (re) signification of the use of epidemiological data; The (re) significance of the work process in the light of epidemiological data. Final considerations: the main fragilities highlighted by the participants of this study, for the non-use of Health Information Systems and epidemiological data in their daily work practices, relate to the lack of permanent education, and the standardization of the system that is verticalized, not taking into account local specificities. Factors that generate information that is often not consistent with the reality and, consequently, leading to non-use and / or underutilization of the Health Information Systems and the epidemiological data contained therein.