Avaliação das Redes de Atenção à Saúde: um estudo sobre o atributo da coordenação assistencial

Abstract

The Dawson Report, published in 1920, can be considered one of the bases of the model proposed by the national health systems, as it presented the organization of health services in a regionalized way, based on the health needs of the population, under a single command of an authority. local sanitary. This idea was the basis for the construction of the concept of Health Care Networks (RAS). In 2008, PAHO made recommendations for health systems in Latin America to organize RAS as a way to overcome fragmentation. The 13 essential attributes of RAS were presented, among which the existence of assistance coordination mechanisms along the continuum of health services stands out. The present work aims to explore approaches and instruments for evaluating care coordination in chosen national systems. An exploratory study was carried out, which includes literature and document research, a conceptual course on the themes of health care networks and care coordination. As care coordination is a polysemic concept, the definitions presented by Terraza Núñez (2004) and Vargas (2015) were used in this work, which propose the distinction of three components of care coordination: Administrative Coordination; Clinical Management; and Information Coordination. In the review carried out, it became evident that there are different instruments with the objective of evaluating different aspects of coordination, as well as different perspectives to be considered in the evaluation, depending on the management level considered. In the evaluation process, the differentiation of the coordination components is fundamental not only to understand the studied processes, but also to make up intervention strategies and identify the different management responsibilities.