A vigilância em saúde de um município da região metropolitana de Porto Alegre: uma análise institucional

Abstract

This work intends to know the methods of work used by the Health Surveillance Agency from a city located at the metropolitan zone of Porto Alegre (RS). We mean to analyze the institutionalization of these processes, for perceiving instituted and instituting questions – by also describing their logic – and understanding the way Health Surveillance experiences its work. The theoretical background chosen for this project is the institutional analysis, socioanalytical subdivision. The tools used in this research/intervention are participational observations and group discussions with the workers of Health Surveillance organs. We presume that this Health Surveillance organ intends to work in networking, since there are several interactive moves between workers and services. Educational actions are part of the work methods of these workers but they're made in a normative and vertical way. However, instituitive processes might be identified in these actions, specially on Sanitary Surveillance. Finally, we identify the low visibility of actions from Worker's Health Surveillance and of the importance of the naturalization of this praxis.