title: [The nurse in the decentralization process of the health system].
abstract: Study about the decentralization process of the health system in the '80s and '90s in the city of Itabuna-BA. It is aimed at describing the city's health decentralization process, identifying the nurse's insertion/participation in this process. Descriptive/qualitative study of exploratory nature that utilized both the semistructured interview and documental analysis for data collection. The results show that the nurse's insertion in the decentralization process took place according to the changes that occurred at every municipal management, where the nurse acted more effectively as the set of circumstances was established and was influenced by the several conjunctures formed by the implemented policies or implemented in each context of the management of the municipal health system.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciencias da Saúde da Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz. nupisc@bol.com.br
authors.forename: Maria Aparecida Santa Fé
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Borges
authors.forename: Maria Angela Alves
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: do Nascimento
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000379:methods; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000379:methods*; D024802:Nurse's Role