A formação da agenda pública regional da saúde : a gestão plena municipal e a gestão territorial da política em Caxias do Sul - RS.

Abstract

This research aims to study the formation of the public agenda and implementation of the Full Management Municipal Health Policy in the city of Caxias do Sul between 1997 and 2002, its configuration and regional particularities, considering the Northeast region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. This study analyzes the process of health policy regionalization as the effects of meaning produced and discursive formations that sustain the discourse of the subjects involved in the process. The qualitative analysis for the study was the agenda setting, accounted for important inferences about the field material collected by the researcher, came from individual interviews and documents supplied by the subjects. The results of this study reveal a very peculiar strategy of government, which overflows the county territory for the entire region of coverage. It is pertinent to highlight the political platform used by the municipal government, which the political literature names as Programmatic Coalition Government, and how it becomes a public agenda of regional health policy. Empirical evidences of the qualitative analysis show, through documents and speeches of the various social actors involved, the need for a research agenda to enlarge the meanings of the study in similar experiments.