Evaluation of the training course on Municipal Health Management

Celia Regina Pierantoni 1 Ana Luiza D’Ávila Viana 2 Ricardo A W. Tavares 3 Soraya Belisário 4 Tania França 5

Abstract The paper assesses the training course on Municipal Health Management – one of the components of the Training National Program for Municipal Managers, carried out in 2001 by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. This article presents the main results of this research, which was coordinated by the Observatory of Human Resources in Health Network, workstation of the Institute of Social Medicine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IMS/UERJ). The article also analyzes the need to have a more systematized evaluation of capacity processes in health services and shows the importance of training programs for municipal managers, as they are important forums for discussion and sharing experiences between municipalities, enabling them to plan collective action strategies. The authors highlight that the evaluation has a core importance in improving the performance of policies and activities interrelated with the implementation of programs, and that it should be a permanent activity in all intervention processes.

1 Physician, Doctor in Collective Health; associate professor and researcher at Instituto de Medicina Social da UERJ; coordinator of Estação de Trabalho IMS/UERJ da Rede Observatório de Recursos Humanos em Saúde OPAS/OMS/MS 2 Economist, P.H.D in Economy, associate professor at Departamento de Medicina Preventiva da faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (DMP/FM/USP) 3 Economist, PHD in Social Sciences; professor at Departamento de Planejamento e Administração do IMS/UERJ 4 Physican; Docrtor in Collective Health; Professor at DMPS/FM/UFMG 5 Statistician; MSc in Public Health; PHD candidate at Programa de pós- graduação de Saúde Coletiva do IMS/UERJ; associated researcher at Instituto de Medicina Social da UERJ; researcher at “Estação de Trabalho IMS/UERJ da Rede Observatório de Recursos Humanos em Saúde OPAS/OMS/MS “