Percepção do papel dos conselheiros sobre sua atuação no Conselho Municipal de Saúde de David Canabarro – RS

Abstract

Since the approval of the Federal Constitution, in 1988, Brazil effective democratic participation of the population. Among the mechanisms undertaken to meet the democratic and participatory principle it can be noted that the creation of municipal councils and political rights becomes an extremely important milestone for the Brazilian political system. Such councils were created in order to ensure the participation and control of civil society in monitoring and controlling the use of public resources to finance public services offered to the population, ensuring the effectiveness and quality in the provision thereof, observing and respecting the reality of each municipality. In this sense, it is recorded that this study proposes an analysis specifically about the reality of the Municipal Health Council, the city of David Canabarro-RS. By examining only the reality of this council policies and rights takes into account on the one hand, that it has the authority to regulate specific laws for your area of expertise. On the other hand, it is considered that such a council should be formed by representatives of government and civil society organizations in rights protection movements. These civil society representatives should be individuals really identified with the causes of movements for which they were nominated. Precisely for this reason some difficulties arise as to representation and training these counselors to the extent that they must discuss and decide on important and complex issues of the Unified Health System (SUS). To this end, in order to analyze the reality of the Municipal Health Council David Canabarro became the methodological option for conducting interviews about the performance and experience of the directors and their advisors. In addition, in order to support the study, literature review was conducted on the topic discussed, limiting the reflection for participation and social control exercised by these spaces.