DimeRede: development of a methodology for health workforce planning and sizing

Authors

  • Desirée dos Santos Carvalho
  • Elisabet Pereira Lelo Nascimento

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36489/saudecoletiva.2021v11i62p5097-5115

Keywords:

Workforce, Health management, Regional health planning, Personnel downsizing

Abstract

Goal: To describe the development of a methodology for planning and sizing of the multi-professional health workforce, by integrating the three levels of the Health Care Network (RAS) of the Unified Health System (SUS). Methodology: experience report on the elaboration of this methodological proposal, held between April 2019 and March 2020, based on SUS guidelines, literature and experiences in projects of the Ministry of Health. Results: presentation of DimeRede, which, oriented to the organizational arrangement of the RAS, estimates the necessary workforce according to the local and regional needs, taking into consideration the epidemiological profile and social determinants of health and illness identified in each territorial stratification. Conclusion: the DimeRede approach constitutes an important advance, proving to be a powerful instrument to implement labor management policies. However, it doesn"™t end the challenges of ensuring adequate teams for multi-professional care in accordance with the health needs of the population.

Author Biographies

Desirée dos Santos Carvalho

Nurse and teacher, specialist in Management of Work and Health Education and master in Public Health. SUS worker at the Hospital Conceição Group/Ministry of Health, she was a tutor in the Health Work Management Governance Project as a researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology/Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation, currently a researcher at Centro de Centro of Innovation in Management of Education and Health Work - CIGETS at the Federal University of Goiás.

Elisabet Pereira Lelo Nascimento

Sanitary nurse, Master in Nursing and PhD in Public Health. Technical support from the Department of Management of Work and Education in Health of the Municipal Health Secretariat of Campinas, was coordinator of the Project of Governance of Management of Work in Health as a researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology/Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation , is currently a researcher at the Center for Innovation in Management of Education and Work in Health - CIGETS at the Federal University of Goiás.

Published

2021-03-01

How to Cite

dos Santos Carvalho, D. ., & Pereira Lelo Nascimento, E. . (2021). DimeRede: development of a methodology for health workforce planning and sizing. Saúde Coletiva (Barueri), 11(62), 5097–5115. https://doi.org/10.36489/saudecoletiva.2021v11i62p5097-5115

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Section

Artigos Cientí­ficos