Abstract

GONCALVES, Maria Jacirema Ferreira. Health Program Evaluation: The Tuberculosis Control National Program in Brazil. Saúde Transform. Soc. [online]. 2012, vol.3, n.1, pp. 13-17. ISSN 2178-7085.

This work proposes an evaluation of a methodological point of view of health program, especially, the National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTCP) in Brazil. This is not a research result of an evaluation properly, although we used a research to produce this reflexive article. Evaluation is recognized by its potential to contribute to take decision and to make health policy, taking into account that the Ministry of Health uses as its program policy the NTCP. The objective of this article is to give a general to discuss in a theoretic-methodological point of view of the program evaluation, using epidemiology as a tool for this assay. As proposal of NTCP performance evaluation we suggest the cluster analysis, including indicator of process and result. These indicators can represent the operation of the program by the way the established results as goals or the indicators that we wait as a good job of the program. The same way, the process indicators should reveal the way of program operation, in the actions execution considered basic to its performance, and to reach the success in tuberculosis control. Using this proposal we identify that the cluster analysis makes possible find differences in the municipalities' performance, which theoretically would have the same possibilities, and this way we can answer to the program such as the process and result that the program reaches.

Keywords : Outcome and Process Assessment; Health Care; Program Evaluation; Tuberculosis.

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