A utilização dos indicadores socioeconômicos na formulação de estratégias para gestão em saúde

Abstract

ABSTRACT- The health’s indicators have as the main function to reveal the health’s situation in a community, and thereby enable the decision-making relation to the planning of health actions. It allows to assessing the objectives and targets, measure and still drawing a comparison of the results. The theme of social indicators and its application in planning, formulation and evaluation of action is growing, helps to spread the use of particular indicators to managers and makes it easier to deal with real information and more accurate. It is a thoughtful article about the use of socioeconomic indicators and their influence in the formulation of new strategies to health management. It consists of a brief history of management and socioeconomic indicators, the definition of socioeconomic indicators and acceptable values, and also the contribution of socioeconomic indicators to trace a diagnosis and develop strategies for health management. With the development of this study, it was observed that for a long time managers of health, even unwittingly make use of indicators to set goals and develop action plans, but there are few scientific reports confirming the use of this tool in the management. However the suggestion is that all health professionals or managers who have contact or experience positive experiences regarding to the use of indicators as guiding the actions, to publish their experiences to provide data to future research.