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Theoretical and conceptual notes on evaluative processes taking the multiple dimensions of healthcare management into account

This paper presents a discussion on health evaluation that considers the multiple dimensions of healthcare management (individual, family, professional, organizational, systemic, and societal) through a gradation of tools and objectives related to the evaluative processes, which, by taking the societal and systemic dimensions as a starting point, with their demand for "harder" and well-shaped indices, are carried out towards healthcare processes that present more micropolitical aspects. Therefore, it proposes a mobile equation that translates the "outer" relation (administrators, researchers, managers) and the "inner" relation (teams acting as healthcare providers) so that the micropolitical level is envisaged in all its wealth and specificity. An evaluative logic that not only stands for the mere decoding and operationalization of the "hard" indices as defined by the administrators (from "outside"), but is produced within itself ("inside" the health care).

Health evaluation; Micropolitics; Healthcare management


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