Evaluation of the implementation of the municipal pharmaceutical assistance policy from the perspective of political administration

Abstract

During the process of consolidating the country's new health policy model, established by the Unified Health System of Brazil (SUS), several legal and institutional actions were developed to enable the full and decentralized management of health. However, studies on the Pharmaceutical Assistance sector in Brazilian municipalities point to the existence of political and technical obstacles that impede the full effectiveness of public policies in this area, compromising the population's access to medicines and the quality of the services offered. One of the reasons for this reality is the existence of a gap between the formulation of public policies and the municipalities' capacity to execute them, impacting the achievement of the proposed objectives. It is in this sense that the tenets of Political Administration present themselves as an important theoretical framework for understanding the implementation of public policies, as it allows for an in-depth analysis of administrative processes, both concerning the formulation of public policies (political dimension) and the execution of actions (technical dimension). Therefore, this work aims to present an analysis matrix focused on evaluating the capacity of municipalities to implement the Municipal Pharmaceutical Assistance Policy, from the perspective of Political Administration.