A estrutura do fluxo informacional do Sistema Nacional de Transplantes: uma investigação sob a óptica da análise de redes sociais

• Autor(a) principal: França, André Luiz Dias de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/3920
• topic: Análise de Redes Sociais; Fluxo de Informações; Sistema Nacional de Transplantes; Social Network Analysis; Information flow; National Transplant System (Brazil); CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::CIENCIA DA INFORMACAO

Understanding the information as the central object of study in Information Science (IS) - seeing its essential interdisciplinary approach and its inseparable relationship with social responsibility - this research focused on the best understanding of the problems of the effective dissemination of knowledge, of the information flow among the humans involved in the National Transplant System (NTS). In sum, the research aimed at understanding how to structure the NTS s information flow from the perspective of the Social Network Analysis (SNA). Through technical and field visits, interviews and electronic questionnaires it was possible to relate the channels that the NTS s information flow used to form the social structure of the network. Next, it was observed the central positions of General Coordination of the National Transplant System (GCNTS) and Central National Transplant (CNT) as well as the informal leaderships by states like Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Norte, São Paulo and Ceará in this analysis approach. It was concluded that the more an actor appeared in the network, participating in its informational dynamics, more representative numerically and graphically he places himself before the others. Considering the whole network, it was assumed that even though it had presented a reasonable structure and distribution, most connections were highlighted as weak, what indicates low level of interaction among network members. These aspects were very relevant, not ensuring, as well, the necessary conditions for allowing a uniform and continuous flow that would represent a satisfactory traffic of information in order to promote the advancement of scientific and technical knowledge of all actors in the network.