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      Anthropology in research on the quality of health services Translated title: Antropologia e pesquisa sobre qualidade dos serviços de saúde

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          Current crisis in the health sector has increased research directed towards quality of health services. Public health research on quality of services commonly assessed adherence to predefined criteria for building structure, equipment and technical procedures. The paper explores the contribution anthropology can make to health services research by including a lay perspective in quality evaluation. Rapid approaches to the lay perspective assume that conflict between the providers and users of health services result only from the different explanatory models and are thus resolvable through training and education. The holistic approach of anthropology demonstrates that service quality must be located in the wider contexts of health service structure, and the socio-economic circumstances of user's lives as well as differences between medical and lay models of health.

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          A presente crise no setor saúde causou uma expansao da pesquisa ligada à qualidade dos serviços de saúde. Pesquisas na área de saúde pública ligadas à qualidade dos serviços geralmente avaliavam o uso ou não de critérios predefinidos para edificações, equipamentos e procedimentos técnicos. Este trabalho enfoca a contribuição que a antropologia pode dar para a pesquisa em qualidade de serviços e inclui critérios populares na avaliação da qualidade. Métodos de avaliação rápida de critérios populares indicam que os conflitos entre os provedores e os usuários dos serviços de saúde são decorrentes apenas de divergências quanto a modelos explanatórios e, sendo assim, podem ser resolvidos através de treinamento e educação. A abordagem holística em Antropologia demonstra que a questão da qualidade de serviços deve ser vista dentro do contexto da estrutura dos serviços de saúde, das circunstâncias sócio-econômicas da vida dos usuários e das diferenças entre os modelos médicos e populares de saúde.

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              Problems in the conceptual framework of patient satisfaction research: an empirical exploration.

              Survey research into patient satisfaction has been responsible for developing a number of related concepts concerning the ways in which patients evaluate the health care that they receive. Recently doubts have been expressed as to the adequacy of this approach for understanding how patients anticipate and respond to medical encounters. This paper reports a study of patients attending neurological outpatient clinics. The results suggest that the conceptual framework deriving from patient satisfaction research provides only partial and sometimes misleading insights into the perspectives of the patients studied. The paper concludes that patients' varying concerns with regard to their illness need to be more directly considered in explaining different responses to medical consultations. This approach enables a more sensitive evaluation of health care from the patient's point of view.
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                csp
                Cadernos de Saúde Pública
                Cad. Saúde Pública
                Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil )
                0102-311X
                1678-4464
                September 1993
                : 9
                : 3
                : 283-299
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                [01] London orgnameUniversity of London orgdiv1London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine orgdiv2Department of Public Health and Policy United Kingdom
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                S0102-311X1993000300016 S0102-311X(93)00900316
                10.1590/S0102-311X1993000300016
                404e9435-0033-49c9-9697-d076a3e5951e

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                Anthropology,Evaluation,Health Services,Antropologia,Avaliação,Serviços de Saúde

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