A política nacional de promoção da saúde e a gestão municipal: uma investigação no município de Limoeiro-PE

Abstract

The National Health Promotion Policy was developed with the purpose of promoting Brazilian public health. The objective of this research was to investigate how the municipal management of the City of Limoeiro-PE led the National Health Promotion Policy between 2012 and 2017. The methodological procedures had a qualitative focus, the data were obtained in the Pernambuco State Database and data analysis was based on content analysis. The results reveal that during the researched series there was only variation in the number of health centers. The number of hospital admissions in Limoeiro-PE only increased in the specialty "Surgical Clinic". The teams of active health professionals remained unchanged from the beginning until the end of the historical series. With regard to the categories of health professionals related to limoeirense health care, there was a reduction in the staff of "General Practitioner", "General Surgeon" and "Family Doctor", and an increase in the framework of "Social Worker", "Nurse", "Obstetrician", "Pediatrician" and "Psychologist". It was concluded with the research that the National Health Promotion Policy was developed in Limoeiro-PE in the period from 2012 to 2017, with a reduction in the number of health service care units; decrease in the number of hospital admissions; invariability in the number of teams related to family health and teams from the health support center. Although there was an increase in the number of health professionals, there was a decrease in the main categories that deal primarily in the health care of the Limoeirense population.