Programa Pesquisa para o SUS: a contribuição para gestão e serviços de saúde na Paraíba

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Health research is widely recognized for its contribution to human development and should seek to meet national health priorities, to thereby improve the health of the population. Thus, the Research Program for the Unified Health System: shared management in health presents the purpose to fund research on priority areas for the health of the Brazilian population, contribute to the improvement of the Unified Health System and promote the development of science and technology in health in all states of the federation. GOAL: to understand the researchers perception about the contribution of research funded by the edicts Research Program for the Unified Health System in Paraiba state, to solving the priority health problems of the population of Paraiba, to reduce regional inequalities in health and to strengthen the management of Unified Health System. METHODS: An exploratory study with a qualitative approach, developed from the documentary survey of the notices Research Program for the Unified Health System 2004 and 2006 and the final reports of research relating to these notices, as well as semi-structured interview to 28 coordinators to these studies. Triangulation strategy was used in order to identify (in) congruities and complementarities between the different data sources. RESULTS: Data were subjected to content analysis, which converged into five categories: financial resources, field work, solving the health problems, reducing regional inequalities and contribution to management. The wide spectrum of interpretations and categorized reports reveals the gap in the operativeness of the state program. CONCLUSIONS: The Paraiba state still needs some adjustments so that the Research Program for the Unified Health System can be effectively on completion, for example, ensuring that the knowledge generated can be realized in the health policies and actions, since the research funded in the state respond to the health needs of the population, and even to the difficulties of the Unified Health System management. Nevertheless, this Program can truly contribute to the scientific and technological development in our country, by reducing regional inequalities in this field. Therefore, it is necessary to find strategies for dialogue and dissemination of research results not only to management, but to the population as a whole, so that effectively these studies show the practical contribution. Clearly, this attitude must rely on the joint effort of the researchers, the Support Foundation for Research and the State health management.