Consórcios de saúde nas regiões de saúde de Irecê e Jacobina (Bahia)

Abstract

The present study was developed from concerns about the formation of health consortia in the state of Bahia, specifically those from Irecê and Jacobina. It aims to provide an understanding of how these instruments have been organized in their health regions and how they have been working. These partnership models in health area, in Bahia, are recent and despite moving towards a de facto consolidation, they still face problems that prevent them from actually reaching their primary objectives, since their idealization. The theoretical body of this dissertation is supported by the ideas of spatial justice, more precisely, the distributive one, developed by John Rawls. However, this distributive idea here is perceived as a crucial and open starting point for other conceptions, understandings and concepts, which strengthen it, instead of making it a promoter of injustices. Almost all this study has been built on a methodological logic based on comparative analysis, since everything that was analyzed in one consortium was also analyzed in the other, what made the construction complex, due to necessity of searching, organizing and systematizing data and information which were common in both models, otherwise, it could evade the initial idea and proposed objectives. In the end, it was possible to provide a comparative analysis both health consortia, that did not intend to make them seem like one; on the contrary, it was capable of differentiating them into their specificities and bringing them together in their similarities.