Volume 28, Issue 3
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2018.1071
ANALYSIS OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL HEALTH NETWORKS. INFORMATION FLOW AND DERIVATION OF USERS WITH EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL
Abstract
The present study was an exploratory-descriptive research that aimed to investigate the preeminence of informal health networks in response to the problem of excessive alcohol consumption. The research consisted of 20 semi-structured interviews with key informants from the health sector of four Health Centers in the north of the Province of Buenos Aires and 10 informants from the informal health sector of the City of Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires Conurbation. The results indicated that the services that make up the Formal Health Network, have relatively few connections to each other. It is envisaged that the services do not share knowledge, data and / or experiences with other teams that perform similar tasks.
Keywords
Formal Networks, Informal Networks, Excessive consumption of alcohol