title: [The job of the manager of a basic health care unit: practice possibilities].
abstract: This article deals with the management of basic health care units, which in the context of municipalization of health, is being placed as strategic to the consolidation of the health care model prescribed by the Integrated Health Care System. It intends to contribute to the process of reflection concerning management, pointing out some possibilities for the manager's work in its administrative, technical and political dimensions.
authors.affiliation: Administração de Serviços de Enfermagem, Departamento de Saúde da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Bahia, (UEFS).
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Dantas
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Melo
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006295:Health Resources / Q000458:organization & administration; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans; D010559:Personnel Management; D011364:Professional Practice