Conselho Municipal de Saúde de São Borja: um espaço contraditório na efetivação do controle e da participação social

Abstract

This Final Work of Graduation is the study conducted at the Municipal Health Council in Sao Borja, on the first semester of 2010. The goal is “To analize how it sets up, or not, social control and participation in the municipal Health Council in Sao Borja, in the sense of strenghthen the Council as an area of struggle and citizenship defense”. Based on the understanding that this is, legally, the instance of social control by excellence, also seeks to understand if this Council of health is configured as a public sphere, understood as a political discussion, which prevails in the contest of contradictory interests. The study is a qualitative one guided by the critical-dialectical method, which were used for the data collection instruments, systematic observation and driven interview. For data analysis it was used the technique of content analysis, through the categorization process and the main categories are: social control, participation and public sphere. The results showed a contradictory space in which there are many limitations so it can be set up as a public sphere, especially in the exercise of control and social participation. However, there was potential to be developed so that this space becomes more than a space of formal legalization of health policy, but a space of representation and visualitization of collective interests through social participation strenghthening citizenship process and guarantee the right to health as public policy. In this sense, it is proposed that there is a job interlinked between Health Council and Social Services so that they overcome limitations.