Políticas públicas de acesso à informação em saúde: análise sob o viés da Arquivologia.

Health is a right of all Brazilian citizens, and the records produced under the Unified Health System are sources of information and proof of this right. Public policies are the legal instruments that can establish the guidelines and procedures that guide access to this information. Based on this, this study aimed to analyze, from the perspective of Archival Science, the National Health Information and Informatics Policy of the Unified Health System. This is a descriptive type of case study, for which a qualitative approach was used for data processing and documentary research as a methodological procedure. The results indicated that the National Policy on Information and Informatics in Health represents an important step towards access to information but needs adjustments in terms of care in the area of Records Management, namely: the creation of an archival policy; diagnosis of files linked to the Unified Health System; mapping of professionals trained in Archival Science who deal with health documentation; and dialogues with archival institutions and researchers. It was concluded that the areas of Archival Science and Health, in the light of the National Policy on Information and Informatics in Health, urgently need to strengthen relations and apply archival practices, especially in the field of Records Management in the Unified Health System. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]