Abstract
ABSTRACTThe main proposal to set up an articulated mode of operation of health services has been the concept of network, which has been appropriated in different ways in the field of public health, as it is used in other disciplinary fields or even taking it from common sense. Amid the diversity of uses and concepts, we recognize the need for rigorous conceptual demarcation about networks in the field of health. Such concern aims to preserve the strategic potential of this concept in the research and planning in the field, overcoming uncertainties and distortions still observed in its discourse-analytic circulation in public health. To this end, we will introduce the current uses of network in different disciplinary fields, emphasizing dialogues with the field of public health. With this, we intend to stimulate discussions about the development of empirical dimensions and analytical models that may allow us to understand the processes produced within and around health networks.
Highlights
The notion of network as guiding principle of the organization of actions and services of the health sector has been present in Brazil since the ideals of creation of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS)
We can recognize it in the influence that SUS has received, in its conception, from the British healthcare system and, from the Dawson report[13], which introduces the principle of health networks and anticipates the idea of articulated operation between services of different complexities
The main proposal to set up an articulated mode of operation of health services has been the concept of network
Summary
The notion of network as guiding principle of the organization of actions and services of the health sector has been present in Brazil since the ideals of creation of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). Network as transconcept: elements for a conceptual demarcation in the field of public health. We can recognize it in the influence that SUS has received, in its conception, from the British healthcare system and, from the Dawson report[13], which introduces the principle of health networks and anticipates the idea of articulated operation between services of different complexities.
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