Democracia e participação social no Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade da Atenção Básica à Saúde

Abstract

The development of brazilian redemocratization was vigorously fostered by popular movements of health, ensuring the community participation in the federal constitution o 1.988, through parity and deliberative health advices. The study proposes to analyses the demographic intensity of participation of City council health regarding te improvement program access and quality in primary care to health (PMAQ) in health centers of the family of a miner southern municipality. The specific objectives intended to qualify the economic profile and participatory member of the municipal health directors; characterize the organization and functioning of municipal health council and identify the perception of the directors in relation to PMAQ. It is a descriptive and explanatory research with qualitative approach from a case study. The corpus of the research is composed of semi-structured interviews with sixteen municipal health aldermen. The methodological route encompassed the premises of thematic content analysis of Laurence Bardin, by systematizing accrued qualitative data. The categorization and analysis is underpinned in the theses on participatory democracy discussed the theoretical assumptions developed by the sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos which advocates emergence of renewal of democratic theory hierarchical according to the intensity of shared authority procedures and the recognition and of reciprocity.