%0 Journal Article
%T Information in the public health sector from an anthropological perspective: a study carried out in Minas Gerais, Brazil - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v3i3.287en
%A Jos¨¦ Wanderlei Novato Silva
%J RECIIS : Electronic Journal of Communication, Information & Innovation in Health
%D 2009
%I Instituto de Comunica??o e Informa??o Cient¨ªfica e Tecnol¨®gica em Sa¨²de (Icict) da Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz)
%X This study examines the relationship between the organizational culture of municipal health secretariats of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil ¨C from the perspective of managers and employees - and how these players deal with information in the health sector. Organizational culture was een as a shared means of work that established forms of ¡°informational behavior¡±, and values and principles that comprise an ¡°informational culture¡±. This culture was analyzed by taking into consideration, among its external constraints, the local, regional, national and global culture levels. The methodology comprised a qualitative analysis of the health ecretariats of three municipalities deliberately selected. Results showed several different aspects concerning how departments deal with health-related information - in line with aspects of state and national cultures, which oscillate between modernity and backwardness. The study was considered ¡°anthropological¡± because the author based his analysis on concepts originating from this field of knowledge. The perception of the transdisciplinarity of information in the health sector - political, technical, social, cultural, economic and administrative ¨C intended to understand how the practices and concepts of the public health sector are the bearers of multiple socially conditioned meanings, aiming at broadening the concept of ¡°anthropology of information¡±.
%K anthropology of information
%K culture
%K public health
%K public management
%K organizational culture
%U http://www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/287/334