Avaliação da capacidade de governo de uma secretaria estadual de saúde para o monitoramento e avaliação da Atenção Básica: lições relevantes

Assessing subjective burden and quality of life in family caregivers of older adults

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate subjective burden and perceived quality of life in primary caregivers who care for older adults at home. Caregivers were followed up in a pilot support group. The study also sought to describe the experience of encouraging dialogue and interaction within this group. METHODS: This quanti-qualitative study was limited to nine family caregivers. Data were collected using the following instruments: the World Health Organization Quality of Life abbreviated version, the Zarit caregiver burden interview, the family APGAR questionnaire, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Katz index of independence in activities of daily living, and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory. Dialogue and interaction in the support group meetings was encouraged through guiding questions. RESULTS: The family caregivers, mostly women with low education, were responsible for older patients who were functionally dependent and had a low frequency and intensity of neuropsychiatric symptoms. The caregivers actively participated in the pilot group. They reported a mild subjective burden and did not present depressive symptoms. They had borderline anxiety symptoms and scores above 60 for all quality of life domains, in addition to good family functionality. CONCLUSIONS: The participants in this pilot group had a mild subjective burden, good perceived quality of life, and showed interest in a caregiver support group. Such groups could be a complementary and instrumentalizing practice in home care and could contribute to a lower caregiver burden and caregiver anxiety, improving their perceived quality of life related to the psychological and social relationship domains.

Capacidade de governo em Secretarias Municipais de Saúde

RESUMO A partir da descentralização da gestão Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), surge a necessidade de se discutir a capacidade de governo, ou de gestão, no âmbito municipal, para a implementação dessa política. Este estudo objetiva analisar a capacidade de governo de Secretarias Municipais de Saúde em municípios baianos, tendo por base a experiência dos gestores. Foi aplicado questionário on-line, subdividido em 03 dimensões, a 15 gestores representantes de Secretarias de municípios de pequeno (porte I) e grande porte (porte II), nas 09 macrorregiões de saúde do estado. Foi utilizada uma matriz de pontuação, que permitiu a quantificação e a classificação dos municípios em cada uma das dimensões e quanto à sua capacidade de governo. Obteve-se que 12 dos municípios apresentaram capacidade moderada, e 03 apresentaram baixa capacidade de governo. A dimensão relacionada ao desenho organizativo das Secretarias foi aquela em que os municípios apresentaram melhor desempenho, seguida por sistemas de trabalho nessas organizações e trajetória profissional dos gestores. Ainda, municípios de porte I e os situados em regiões mais desenvolvidas obtiveram melhores resultados globais. Para a qualificação das gestões, considera-se essencial o investimento em iniciativas de formação e de apoio institucional, priorizando municípios de pequeno porte e situados em regiões de maior vulnerabilidade socioeconômica.

Monitoring practices in municipal healthcare management and their interface with nursing

Objective

To analyse the healthcare monitoring practices of the local government and its interfaces with nursing.

Methods

This is a descriptive, exploratory, and qualitative study conducted in six municipalities in the 10th health region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with six healthcare managers and one adviser, and subjected to content analysis.

Results

The results led to the final categories, "Monitoring practices in municipal healthcare management" and "Difficulties of managers in implementing monitoring".

Conclusion

The managers pointed out potentialities and weaknesses in the monitoring practices of municipal healthcare. This process is critical for the practice of healthcare workers, especially nurses, since it encourages the use of new tools and innovations that support decision making.

Avaliação da Vigilância da Síndrome Gripal: estudo de casos em unidade sentinela

RESUMO O artigo descreve a avaliação de implantação da Vigilância da Síndrome Gripal em Pernambuco por meio de pesquisa avaliativa que compreendeu a determinação do grau de implantação, a análise de contexto político-organizacional e da influência deste sobre o grau. Foram elaborados um modelo lógico e uma matriz de indicadores, e a análise do contexto baseou-se no Triângulo de Governo, de Matus, no projeto de governo, na capacidade de governo e na governabilidade. Identificou-se que a estratégia está implantada em uma das seis unidades avaliadas, que o grau é influenciado de forma variada pelo contexto e que características políticas e organizacionais mais favoráveis podem contribuir para o alcance de graus mais avançados.

[The development of evaluation capacity in primary healthcare management: a case study in Santa Catarina State, Brazil, 2008-2011]

This article analyzes evaluation capacity-building based on the case study of a State Health Secretariat participating in the Project to Strengthen the Technical Capacity of State Health Secretariats in Monitoring and Evaluating Primary Healthcare. The case study adopted a mixed design with information from documents, semi-structured interviews, and evaluation of primary care by the State Health Secretariat in 2008-2011. Process analysis was used to identify the logical events that contributed to evaluation capacity-building, with two categories: evaluation capacity-building events and events for building organizational structure. The logical chain of events was formed by negotiation and agreement on the decision-making levels for the continuity of evaluation, data collection and analysis by the State Health Secretariat, a change in key indicators, restructuring of the evaluation matrix, and communication of the results to the municipalities. The three-way analysis showed that the aim of developing evaluation capacity was achieved.

[Input on monitoring and evaluation practices of government management of Brazilian Municipal Health Departments]

What do the leaders of the Municipal Health Service (SMS) report and say about the systematic monitoring and evaluation of their own government management? The purpose of this paper is to provide input for the formulation of plausible hypotheses about such institutional processes and practices based on information produced in an exploratory study. This is a multiple case study with quantitative and qualitative analysis of answers to a semi-structured questionnaire given to government officials of a systematic sample of 577 Municipal Health Services (10.4% of the total in Brazil). They were selected and stratified by proportional distribution among states and by the population size of municipalities. In general, it shows that approximately half of the respondents use information from Health Monitoring Evaluations to orient decision-making, planning and other management approaches. This proportion tends to decrease in cities with smaller populations. There are specific and significant gaps in financial, personnel and crisis management. The evidence from the hypotheses highlights the fact that these processes are still at an early stage.