[Assessment of the implementation of an care teleregulation project in a Brazilian capital city].

This study evaluates the degree of implementation (DI) of the Regulates+ Brazil project and analyzes to what extent the variations in implementation influence the results observed in access to specialized appointments in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. This is an evaluative research of implementation analysis. A logic model and an analysis and judgment matrix with indicators for evaluating the degree of implementation and the results of the Project were developed and submitted to expert consensus.

[Participatory modeling of educational activities in the Healthcare Planning strategy: backing for assessment of effectiveness].

The Healthcare Planning strategy is a powerful device for reorganization of work processes in healthcare networks and has been implemented by the Brazilian National Council of State Health Secretaries since 2013 in 25 health regions in 11 states, offering a set of educational activities for healthcare workers in the Brazilian Unified National Health System. This study aims to describe the process of participatory and consensual modeling of educational activities to back the assessment of the strategy's effectiveness. Development of the modeling used consultation with 18 key informants, selected intentionally according to their proximity to the educational activities' planning and execution.

[Evaluation of the performance of regionalization of health surveillance in six Brazilian Health Regions].

This study aimed to assess the performance of health surveillance regionalization with different levels of development in Brazil. A cross-sectional quantitative approach was used with data collected through a structured questionnaire, prepared on the basis of three study dimensions (Policy, Structure, and Organization), applied to 31 key actors in health surveillance in the selected Health Regions and municipalities. The measure of central tendency was mean score, and synthetic indices were obtained for each dimension and attribute.

[Decentralization of epidemiological surveillance in Pernambuco State, Brazil].

The study aimed to analyze the relationship between decentralization of the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS) and the development of epidemiological surveillance activities in municipalities (counties) in Pernambuco State, Brazil. This was an exploratory descriptive qualitative and quantitative study, including a document search, completion of semi-structured interviews by key informants, and an ecological spatial and time trend study of selected health indicators, covering a 10-year period (2001-2010). The study showed that municipalities adhered to the decentralization process, which was making progress in Pernambuco, but with inequalities and weaknesses in its development.