Informação e e-governo na saúde: estudo de caso sobre o Portal do Ministério da Saúde

Abstract

Nowadays the internet is getting eminence as a mechanism to spread and give information to a diversity and plentiful public. In the public setor, some providences have been implemented in order to use the web as a communication link between governenment and the society. This study focalizes the Health Portal, tha is defined by the Brazilian Health Ministry as a communication vehicle to join health services and information through the internet. It intends to analyze the avaible information in this site, identifying the different types of health information, products and/or services, and his adequate the Electronic Government purpose to the Brazilian Executive Federal Government. The method adopted was a case study accomplished in a kind of qualitative aproach, monitoring the Portal through a checklist. The data managements of the Portal were very fulfilled by a sequence of questions tha were answered by the health Ministry representatives. This anaysis was made by monitoring the information in order to know its contents and the intereaction degree with its users, all in corcondance with the Electronic Government references. The results of it were tha both Portal data and the intereaction happen in a similar management method of the Unique Health System - UHS. Question appear at this time, in order to consider the internet useas a new way of communication between the government and the society, in wich the population could participate and give opinions about its contents and decisions.