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0592/2011 - The contracting of teaching hospitals in the Brazilian Unified Health System
A contratualização nos Hospitais de Ensino no Sistema Único de Saúde brasileiro

Author:

• Sheyla Maria Lemos Lima - Lima, S.M.L. - Rio e Janeiro, RJ - ESCOLA NACIONAL DE SAÚDE PÚBLiCA / FIOCRUZ - <slemos@ensp.fiocruz.br> +
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1450-0498

Co-author(s):

• Francisco Javier Uribe Rivea - Rivera, F.J.U. - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública - <uribe@ensp.fiocruz.br>

Thematic Area:

Planejamento e Gestão em Saúde

Abstract:

This study identifies possibilities and limitations of contracting to improve health care management, accountability and quality, and expand the participation of teaching hospitals in the health services’ network in the context of the Restructuring Program of Teaching Hospitals in the Brazilian Unified Health System. It’s a case study of four teaching hospitals and their contracting State Health Departments. According to the hospitals’ managers, the associations of contracting with the presence of mechanisms for hospitals REPLACEion into health services network, and with structures and practices for qualifying management and health care in the hospitals are weak. Hospitals more structured managerially and in terms of the health care presented more structured contracting processes. There was an increase in the production of medium complexity outpatient care and a decrease in primary health care procedures. The adjustments suggested are continuous improvement of hospitals and of State Health Departments’ management, review in the process of elaborating the Operative Plan, and others.

Keywords:

contracting teaching hospitals accountability managerial improvement quality improvement Agency Theory

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Lima, S.M.L., Rivera, F.J.U.. The contracting of teaching hospitals in the Brazilian Unified Health System. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2011/Jul). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-contracting-of-teaching-hospitals-in-the-brazilian-unified-health-system/7847?id=7847



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