Brazil

Innovation Labs of the Unified Health System (SUS)

City/State/Region
Begin – End: 2008 – ongoing
Name of organization in charge: Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde OPAS BrasilMinistério da SaúdeConselho Nacional dos Secretários de Saúde (Conass)Conselho Nacional de Secretarias Municipais de Saúde (Conasems)Associação Brasileira de Pós-graduação em Saúde Coletiva (Abrasco) e Centro Brasileiro de Estudos em Saúde (Cebes)
Type of organization in charge: government civil society international organization
Level: local national

Impact

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Implementation: was the innovation effectively, partially or not put into practice at all?

Fulfillment of Aims: were the goals of the innovation completely, partially or not achieved at all?

Output: has the innovation generated recommendations, initiatives, decisions or policies?

Outcome: if there were a policy output, was it enacted or implemented?

Implementation: yes
Fulfillment of Democratic Innovation’s aim: yes
Output: yes
Policy Outcome: yes

The Innovation Labs of the Unified Health System (SUS) are a joint initiative of the Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Brazil, National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass), National Council of Municipal Health Secretariats (Conasems) , Brazilian Association of Postgraduate in Collective Health (Abrasco), and Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes), created in 2008. The Innovation Labs of SUS follow a thematic agenda, composed so far of the following topics: Innovation Lab on the Attention to Chronic Conditions, Innovation Lab on Home Care, Innovation Lab on Labor Management, Innovation Lab on Obesity Management in Networks, Innovation Lab on Social Participation in SUS, and Innovation Lab on Supplementary Health. The objective of the Labs is to gather management practices in various public health policy issues by creating deliberative spaces and joint work, taking into account local practices and specialists in the subject. Participation is convoked by means of a call notice.

Institutional design

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Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?

Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?

Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?

Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?

Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?

Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?

Formalization: only backed by a governmental program or policy
Frequency: sporadic
Mode of selection of participants: both
Type of participants: citizens civil society private stakeholders
Decisiveness: democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
Co-Governance: yes

Means

Deliberation
Direct Voting
E-Participation
Citizen Representation

Ends

Accountability
Responsiveness
Rule of Law
Political Inclusion
Social Equality

Policy cycle

Agenda setting

Formulation and decision-making

Implementation

Evaluation

Sources

http://apsredes.org/category/laboratorio/