Avaliação da implantação do serviço de atendimento móvel de urgência - SAMU, em São José dos Campos: estudo de caso

Abstract

This research presents a theoretical-conceptual approach on the implementation of the Mobile Emergency Care Service - SAMU, in São José dos Campos, focusing on the structuring of the consortium service between municipalities in the same region. It presents, in a synthetic way, the legislation involved and its inherent concepts, based on the pertinent literature and bibliographical and documentary research as a way of subsidizing the analysis of the implementation of the service. Thus, through the minutes of the Inter-Municipal Health Council of the Alto Vale do Paraiba - CONSAVAP, the challenges and the processes of structuring the service were verified in this research. Initially, by the creation of the CONSAVAP, by the physical structure of the decentralized bases and central regulation and by the hiring of the Social Organization to manage and operationalize the SAMU. It also addressed the available operational performance indicators as a way of evaluating service delivery. It brings, as a result of the study, an overview of the initiatives and difficulties of the implementation of the service in the region.