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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
[Evaluation of quality or qualitative evaluation of health care?]
Maria Lúcia Magalhães Bosi1, Kátia Yumi Uchimura
1Coordenadora do Mestrado em Saúde Pública, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFCE), Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. malubosi@nesc.ufrj.br
Abstract:
The paper presents a theoretical exercise regarding health care evaluation in an effort to define several concepts. The multi-dimensional aspects of quality in health are emphasized in addition to the differences between quality evaluation and qualitative evaluation. The implications of not distinguishing between these two concepts are also discussed. Health care is analyzed as a material expression of interpersonal relations in this field and as an object of evaluation, highlighting its intricate relation with integrality and humanization. It is affirmed that quality evaluation and qualitative evaluation are not interchangeable labels, but rather political choices connected to health policies that can not be juxtaposed. Therefore, understanding this distinction is necessary for constructing evaluation proposals that surpass traditional and exclusionary perspectives.
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