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Transferência condicionada de renda, saúde e intersetorialidade: lições do programa bolsa família
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Monnerat, Giselle Lavinas |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | This study provides an analysis of the decentralized process of implementation of the conditionalities involved in Brazil‟s Family Allowance Program (PBF) within the scope of the National Health System (SUS). Considering that the program was recently created and places new demands on the health sector, it is important to identify facilitating factors and major obstacles in this process. The city of Niteroi in Greater Metropolitan Rio de Janeiro is used as a case study, since the municipality presents favorable characteristics for local observation of the implementation of health conditionalities in the PBF, given the city‟s history of consolidation of the local health system, especially primary care, and featuring the experience with the Family Doctor Program. The first dimension of the empirical research drew on document analysis and interviews with administrators and professionals directly involved in the Family Allowance Program in the city of Niteroi, supported by other methodological procedures, especially participant observation. The first analytical stage focused on the origins of income transfer programs, their historical development, and recent international and Brazilian trends, highlighting issues related to the association between assistance and work and the reconfiguration of social rights (recently moving from unconditional to conditional ones). This debate features the controversy surrounding the new generation of social programs – especially the Family Allowance Program – and their relationship to social policy history in Brazil. Next, the study attempts to establish an overview of the reflection concerning the concept and design of the Family Allowance Program, emphasizing its main organizational characteristics and aspects that appear to indicate important changes in the social policy field. Characteristics in the program‟s design are analyzed, along with the induction structure and implementation strategies developed by the Federal government. The discussion seeks to shed light on the issue of social policy and intersectoral collaboration, based on the dilemmas that date to historical setbacks in the Brazilian social security system and emphasizing the current perspective of promises to promote intersectoral linkage based on the conditionalities of the Family Allowance Program and possible forms of interaction with the social protection system. Finally, the study features an analysis of the local implementation of the Family Allowance Program with the following: (i) identification of meanings ascribed to the program by its managers and professional staff; (ii) an analysis of the political, institutional, and operational dynamics of implementing the program‟s health conditionalities; and (iii) examination of the local implementation of intersectoral management and its linkages to the Family Allowance Program. The study‟s results seek to reflect the principal challenges for the health sector in implementing the conditionalities of the Family Allowance Program, suggesting promises, risks and possibilities, confirming that such challenges are inherent not only to the health field itself but also to the local administration, which is experiencing difficulty in executing an intersectoral social program. Based on the in-depth approach provided by the case study, the analyses suggest a set of actual problems related to the coordination and management of the Family Allowance Program that affect the implementation of its health conditionalities. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://bvssp.icict.fiocruz.br/pdf/25496_Giselle_Lavinas_Monnerat.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
