The article discusses the municipal management of the Unified Health System (UHS) from evaluation practices occurring in Camaquã and Canguçu (RS). Presents multiple case studies, qualitative data analysis with participant observation, semi-structured interviews and local documents. Were considered the types of evaluation practices (everyday, normative, punctual, monitoring or evaluative research) and the origin of the evaluators (internal or external). Identified the predominance of everyday evaluation practices exercised by internal agents and the presence of normative practices induced by external agents. It is concluded that the mediation sociopolitical is the main management strategy to consider the diversity of actors and their evaluations on a health system that intends to operate in a network and has participation as a constitutional guideline.
primary health care; health management; health evaluation; health planning; rural population
