The organizational learning: report of an experience at a Basic Health Unit

Abstract

The Sistema Único de Saúde SUS (Unique Health System) subscribes that all heath actions must be taken by a regional and hierarchically health assistance network with an appropriate technology for each level focused in populations whole health treatment. In this report it is considered that the SUS is mainly constructed through the introduction of the Unidades Básicas de Saúde - UBSs (Health Basic Centers) aiming to the attention to the basic levels of Health demands. By the analysis of the faults of the UBS's organizational process, its importance for SUS's development and its difficulties by choosing appropriate strategies, which include solutions that deal with the promotion of common health and local development, it is extremely relevant to consider successful experiences. The UBSs, in spite of having the same objective, develop the same health programmes and being led by the same health politics, present singularities settled by important variables. This work doesn't aim to present a model to be used, but to share an experience followed by two principles: that the collective participation is necessary for the transformation and that the assistance model must be the one which supplies the community's real needs. Due to that, this work presents an experience with an organizational learning in a UBS and aims to contribute to the development of work processes that can lead to a more effective SUS. The method used was the Método Altadir de Planificação Popular - MAPP. (Altadir's Popular Planification Method) aiming to the cooperation and social control.