Produção de regiões de saúde situadas na fronteira Brasil e Uruguai

Abstract

This thesis was built from part of a research carried out along the border between Brazil and Uruguay titled “identifying indicators for monitoring and evaluating the new Uruguayan political impacts on public health and drug consumption caused by the cannabis market regulation along the border area between Brazil and Uruguay" funded by the National Secretariat of Drugs of the Ministry of Justice SENAD / MJ. The aim of the study was to understand the formation of health regions from the Situational strategic planning in twin cities between Brazil and Uruguay. It was used a qualitative database of the cities searched on the axis public health. In the survey, the respondents were municipal managers and health managers in Brazil and Uruguay totaling 14 municipalities. Data collection occurred by semistructured interview with open questions on health management and closed questions designed to perform the characterization of the city and profile of participants. For this study it was decided to carry out the content analysis proposed by Bardin (2011). It was chosen also as a theoretical basis, the Postulate of Coherence of Carlos Matus and Mario Testa, and, the theoretical proposal of Rogério Haesbaert for multiterritoriality. Data collection occurred after approval by the Ethics and Research Committee Opinion number 1,757,934 in October 2016. It was found that the managers of those cities daily face the fluidity of space used by domestic and foreign users who use health services to address the health problems. Because it is considered an open border, it is difficult to sort and quantify the calls to foreigners, a fact that focuses on the records and information systems of the Ministry of Health, due to the unavailability of data on foreign supply. The health calls in most cities still occur in urgent and emergency situations, with poor bonds and low cooperation between the countries. Managers claim about the use of political power to set the hiring of Uruguayan doctors and to join the More Doctors – a Brazilian Program - causing disputes with the Medical Union of Rio Grande do Sul state. The strategic definition and form of policy implementation are defined by an intrinsic vision and are strongly linked to the health underfunding.