O Processo de planejamento de força como uma ferramenta a ser considerada na obtenção e gestão da capacitação na área de Saúde da Marinha do Brasil

Abstract

The Brazilian Navy’s Health System (SSM in the Portuguese acronym) has as one of its subsystems the Operative Medicine, which, in this work, will be called Operative Health, because it is constituted by militaries of several specialties. After the end of the Cold War in 1991, the American Defense created the Capability Based Planning methodology (CBP), which aims at a careful analysis in relation to the necessary expenses and capabilities to respond effectively to the various possible challenges within the future. Operational Health is directly related to the Brazilian Navy Mission: it acts in support of Naval Operations, meeting the demands for the defense of the Homeland and of our society. The objective of this work, based on the Capability Based Planning, is to demonstrate the importance of raising, training, and maintaining military personnel in the Operational Medicine Subsystem (SMO in the Portuguese acronym), and to highlight how the lack of trained health professionals in the operational area can compromise the Brazilian Navy Mission. In the face of the challenges presented, the support of the SMO to Naval Operations, and in order to maintain the physical and mental health of the combatant, it is concluded that Operational Health is strategic and that the investment in health professionals enables them to act in adverse environments, often with shortage of human, material, and logistical resources, using different methods of medical care, necessary to support naval/aeronaval areas and to the Marines resources, which are an integral part of Naval Power. Finally, actions are proposed to raise, train, and maintain health professionals in the SMO.