ALMEIDA, Aline Barreto de e ACIOLE, Geovani Gurgel. Network management and institutional support: pathways in assembling mental health networks within the regional scenario of the National Health System (SUS). Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2014, vol.18, suppl.1, pp. 971-981. Epub 24-Mar-2014. ISSN 1807-5762. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-57622013.0371.
This report is a cartographic record of institutional support at a state health department, in organizing a regional mental health network. Institutional support is a strategy of the National Humanization Policy in healthcare networks and a device for fostering comanagement spaces. This report is guided by three strands: collective production and affection in meetings between managers and workers; action linking institutional support, offers under analysis and collegiate implications; and desires for and collective construction of investment objects. With the experience of the support function as a pathway for linking and extracting the meanings of this action through the desires that mobilize it, we take a critical look at the strengths and weaknesses of institutional subjects and their roles in the collegiate production of mental health care.
Palavras-chave : Healthcare management; Institutional support; Mental health.
