ABSTRACT
This is a single case study with a built-in focus of qualitative basis, exploratory and retrospective, whose aim was to analyze how the health work management is practiced in different models of public management in the State of Pernambuco, studying two hospitals: one managed by Social Health Organization and the other under direct management. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, as well as document analysis for the period 2007 to 2013. The study pointed that the public management model was based on the need of the health network expansion; besides that, there is a Labor Management Policy implemented in the State Department of Health, with disparity in the hospitals studied.
KEYWORDS
Social organization; Human resources; Health management