Abstract

RIVERA, Francisco Javier Uribe  and  ARTMANN, Elizabeth. Health planning and management: methodological flexibility and communicative action. Ciênc. saúde coletiva [online]. 1999, vol.4, n.2, pp. 355-365. ISSN 1413-8123.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-81231999000200010.

This paper intends to analyse the possibilities and the gaps of situational planning, related to the development of dialogical or communicant organizations aim. It stablishes, futhermore, an initial dialog with the health planning streams in Brazil and it defines some research issues that may offer the necessary complement in order to make planning accomplish its function as a communicative action.

Keywords : Health Management; Health Planning; Public Health.