OBJECTIVE This study aims to analyze the current status of the mental health care model of the Brazilian Unified Health System, according to its funding, governance processes, and mechanisms of assessment.METHODS We have carried out a documentary analysis of the ordinances, technical reports, conference reports, normative resolutions, and decrees from 2009 to 2014.RESULTS This is a time of consolidation of the psychosocial model, with expansion of the health care network and inversion of the funding for community services with a strong emphasis on the area of crack cocaine and other drugs. Mental health is an underfunded area within the chronically underfunded Brazilian Unified Health System. The governance model constrains the progress of essential services, which creates the need for the incorporation of a process of regionalization of the management. The mechanisms of assessment are not incorporated into the health policy in the bureaucratic field.CONCLUSIONS There is a need to expand the global funding of the area of health, specifically mental health, which has been shown to be a successful policy. The current focus of the policy seems to be archaic in relation to the precepts of the psychosocial model. Mechanisms of assessment need to be expanded.
RESUMO Os Centros de Atenção Psicossocial III são considerados estratégicos na reorientação do modelo assistencial em saúde mental, contudo, ainda carecem de mecanismos de avaliação sistemáticos. O presente estudo apresenta um conjunto de indicadores desenvolvidos em processo participativo para os Centros de Atenção Psicossocial III do estado de São Paulo. Foram elaborados 16 indicadores, agrupados em 8 temas: Atenção à situação de crise; Qualificação dos atendimentos grupais; Trabalho em rede; Gestão dos Centros de Atenção Psicossocial; Educação permanente; Singularização da atenção; Atenção às pessoas com deficiência intelectual; e Uso de medicação. Os indicadores foram testados nos serviços e constituíram um conjunto potencialmente útil para subsidiar a avaliação, o monitoramento e a gestão dos Centros de Atenção Psicossocial III.
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