Exploring frontliners' knowledge, participation and evaluation in the implementation of a pay-for-performance program (PMAQ) in primary health care in Brazil
| Autor: | Germano Araújo Coelho, Fabiana da Cunha Saddi, Raquel Abrantes Pêgo, Pedro Santos Mundim, Matthew Harris, Fernanda Ramos Parreira, Stephen Peckham, Renata Batista Lozano |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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business.industry
030503 health policy & services Health Policy media_common.quotation_subject Public policy Pay for performance Public relations 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Incentive Accountability H1 Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Performance measurement Quality (business) 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology 0305 other medical science business media_common Qualitative research Implementation theory |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Health Organization and Management. 35:327-343 |
| ISSN: | 1477-7266 |
| Popis: | PurposeThis paper employs implementation theory and the political literature on performance measurement to understand how frontline health workers know, participate and evaluate the Brazilian National Program for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care (PMAQ, 2nd round).Design/methodology/approachThis paper develops an implementation theory-driven qualitative analysis. The research is developed in the city of Goiania (Brazil): a challenging organizational context in primary care (PHC). Interviews were carried out with 25 frontliners – managers, doctors, nurses and community health workers. Data were thematically and hierarchically analysed according to theoretical concepts such as policy knowledge, policy adherence, forms of accountability, alternative logics, organizational capacity and policy feedback.FindingsResults show the need to foster organizational capacity, knowledge, participation and policy feedback at the frontline. Successful implementation would require those adaptations to counteract policy challenges/failures or the emergence of alternative logics.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was conducted in only one setting, however, our sample includes different types of professionals working in units with different levels of organization capacity, located in distinct HDs, expressing well the implementation of PMAQ/P4P. Qualitative researches need to be developed for further exploring the same/other factors.Social implicationsFindings can be used to improve discussions/planning and design of P4P programs in the city and State of Goias.Originality/valueThe majority of analysis of PMAQ are of a quantitative or results-based nature. This article focuses on politically significant and unanswered questions regarding the implementation of PMAQ. |
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