A política de educação permanente em saúde como instrumento de gestão municipal na saúde: revisão narrativa

Abstract

The Health System aims to qualitatively meet the health needs of the population. However, to accomplish this service, the Permanent Health Education, has been used as an essential tool since it allows joint attention, training, management and social control to face the problems of different levels of care. This research sought therefore to identify and analyze the scientific production published on the National Policy on Permanent Health Education / Continuing Education in Health as an instrument of municipal management in health. This is a narrative review conducted in LILACS and MEDLINE databases, with their key words "health management" and "continuing education" and "management", "health" and "continuing-education" time frame lined with deployment National Policy for Continuing Education in Health from 2004 to 2013. six articles were selected. The data underwent thematic analysis. Extracted a category: The National Policy for Continuing Education in Health as qualifying device; and two subcategories: The National Policy on Permanent Health Education as a tool for characterization of municipal employees in health and The National Policy on Permanent Health Education as a tool for classification and action of municipal managers in Health became evident that the use of Continuing Education in Health as an instrument of municipal management for qualification of health services is still quite nascent and needs to be widely discussed in collective spaces as public policy aimed at transformation of professional practices and strengthening the Health System.