Rumos e Desafios: Encerrando um Processo de Avalia??o da Pós-Gradua??o Stricto Sensuem Saúde Coletiva (1994-1997)

摘要

This article intends to provide a summary of an evaluation process of Post-Graduate Courses (PC) on the field of Collective Health, in Brazil, that has been carried out under ABRASCO's (Brazilian Association on Collective Health supervision, since 1995. It particularly stresses core questions of problems identified as priorities for the PC of the field: the curriculum frame, analyzing the perspective of main themes or core courses; the articulation among different PC complexity levels, reviewing conceptual and organizational issues; the courses quality, searching for evaluation parameters that whereas allows to establish comparisons among courses, also deepens the understanding of their particularities; the scientific production and publication, attempting to evaluate and qualify them in different ways. Finally, in a dialogical approach, the article suggests new challenges to the Post-graduate courses on Public Health, in Brazil.