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Health regionalization in Amazonas: progress and challenges
Luiza Garnelo1, Amandia Braga Lima Sousa1, Clayton de Oliveira da Silva1
1Centro de Pesquisas Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz. R. Teresina 476, Adrianópolis. 69057-070 Manaus AM Brasil. luiza.garnelo@fiocruz.br.
Abstract:
This paper analyses the health services regionalization process in the State of Amazonas through a case study covering the health sub-region Manaus Surroundings. This is a qualitative, descriptive and analytical research, which data were collected using interviews, documents and Internet reviews, oriented by the guiding concept of health regionalization. Study findings revealed a social setting dominated by asymmetry, verticality, competitiveness and fragile multilateral relations among municipalities, associated to a bureaucratic profile of local institutions operating in the region under study. The political agents have limited acknowledgement of the sociopolitical and institutional conditions in which they operate. They usually impute healthcare networks' management and operational issues to the natural and geographical characteristics of the Amazon region, but their financing, governance and technical capacity are insufficient to overcome them.
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