ABSTRACT
This article analyzes the implementation of the Urgency and Emergencies Network, its regional interfederative arrangements of agreement and policy management, in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, along the period of 2011-2016. Implementation is considered as a dynamic policy process, with constant interaction, negotiation and learning. This is a case study, based on qualitative health research and policy implementation studies, with 4 overlapping levels of analysis: implementation design; characterization of implementation actors; characterization of regional interfederative arrangements and disputes and interfederative challenges not overcome. The data were obtained from public documents of instances of agreement and coordination of the policy and participating organizations and actors. Based on the reflections of Power in health policies by Testa and the Paidéia method of collective management, it is analyzed how the results revealed the insufficiency of the political instruments and coordination arrangements developed by the imple-mentation of the Urgency and Emergency Network. Thus, the fragility of regional governance, the need to strengthen health regions as a territorial unit, its relationship with health care networks and the proposals for regional and interfederative arrangements for SUS development are discussed.
KEYWORDS
Health systems; Regional health planning; Governance; Emergency medical services; Federalism