Assessment of health surveillance actions: participatory construction of mechanisms for monitoring management performance

Abstract

  Introduction: Evaluation focused on use is an important theoretical framework to be observed in proposing a pathway among those of the feld of evaluation to support the qualifcation of health management. Performance monitoring is considered a driving strategy for rationalizing management and decisions. Objective: To present the pathway carried out by the Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária and the Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz in the participatory construction process of mechanisms for monitoring management performance in subnational instances, as part of the implementation of the action – structural and technical mechanisms – that makes part of the frst line of execution of the Institutionalization of the project “Evaluative Practices: strategic management of the evidence-based health surveillance”. Method: Description of the participatory construction process of mechanisms for monitoring management performance in subnational instances, considering two dimensions – the involvement of the main stakeholders in the perspective of the use of monitoring and the building of theoretical and operational tools and utilization strategies. Results: The project was  implemented in four health surveillance institutions. It was permeated by the participatory feature since the strategy conception, to the modeling, to the formulation of the management devices and instruments of analysis and interpretation of the indicators. Conclusions: The project enabled the development of an institutional learning locus that valued not only the appreciation of results, but also the information production process itself. Therefore, it contributes to the institutionalization of changes and innovations in the execution of actions.