Concepções e práticas da vigilância em saúde: a voz dos gestores

Abstract

The Health Surveillance is part of the proposals framework of the Health Unique System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS), contemplating the actions of the Epidemiological Surveillance, Sanitary Surveillance, Environmental Surveillance, Occupational Health Surveillance, focusing in disease prevention and the health promotion. This research aims to analyze conceptions and practices of the Health Surveillance, from the conceptions of the managers. For the study, we used a qualitative approach, carried out with 11 managers, from the interviews with semi-structured script, carried out during October and December 2016. From the material collected, two corpus were constituted to analysis. The first was submitted to the program Iramuteq and was generated three categories. The second corpus was submitted the analysis of the Laurence Bardin's content and was originated two thematic categories: “Conceptions about the Health Surveillance” and “Practices of the health in Surveillance”, discussed from the theoretical framework. The results demonstrate that the managers understand Health Surveillance as an indispensable model to SUS, in addition pointing to the realization of the collective planning. However, there are contradictions when the managers mentioning that the developed actions are disarticulated between the sectors and, thus, they need the implementation of strategies capable of the impacts about the effectiveness of the articulation. There are also, reports of precarious working conditions, insufficient human resources and fragility in the worker health sector. From this reality, it’s necessary the support of the supporters, managers, professionals and social control around a broad debate, with the perspective of promoting new knowledge and actions capable of transforming the current model of care in relation to Health Surveillance.