Gestão em rede e apoio institucional: Caminhos na tessitura de redes em saúde mental no cenário regional do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)

Abstract

This report is a cartographic record of institutional support at a state health department, in organizing a regional mental health network. Institutional support is a strategy of the National Humanization Policy in healthcare networks and a device for fostering comanagement spaces. This report is guided by three strands: collective production and affection in meetings between managers and workers; action linking institutional support, offers under analysis and collegiate implications; and desires for and collective construction of investment objects. With the experience of the support function as a pathway for linking and extracting the meanings of this action through the desires that mobilize it, we take a critical look at the strengths and weaknesses of institutional subjects and their roles in the collegiate production of mental health care.