Critical notes on the education seminars for management of health services

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Sonia Maria Fleury
• Data de Publicação: 1985
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/10288

This study intends to analyze the results achieved by seminars organized as activities of a Pan-American Health Organization subprogram on Education for Hea1th Services Administration, supported by the Kellogg Foundation, with a view to improving the quality of courses on health planning and administration. Said seminars were he1d between 1981 and 1983 and discussed the contends, bibliography and design of courses administered on such issues as: organizational behavior; economics, finance and cost control; health planning; epidemiology; strategic management and son on. The final product of each seminar usually inc1udes a volume containg the texts collected and catalogued, an abridgement of all this material and also a document conveying the participants' findings and recommendations about curricula, indispensable written material and suggestions on the work to be developed within the fie1d. Specifically, the material herein analyzed is the final document describing each one of the seminars, no single criterion being adopted for their analysis, since reports very much differed among themselves. However, an attempt has been made to appraising each one of them on basis of criteria inherent to each description, that is, in terms of the objectives proposed, concepts used, methodology adopted and structure of the report presented. The most generally accepted finding of this analysis concerns the varied degrees of inconsistency detected and pointed out in the texts, either within each report or by comparing one against the other. The persistent inconsistencies, however, seem to point out the need to impress a firm course for the scientific policy adopted by international agencies for the advancement of teaching on hea1th administration.