The indispensable self-criticism: notes on the challenges to health social control

Authors

  • Francini Lube Guizardi Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Escola Fiocruz de Governo - Fiocruz Brasília, Laboratório de Educação, Mediações Tecnológicas e Transdisciplinaridade em Saúde (Lemtes).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v9i3.1028

Keywords:

Informal social control, Formal social control, Social control policies, Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health System), Health conferences, Health policy

Abstract

In the year of the 15th National Health Conference, this note seeks to analyze some of the current challenges related to the construction of social participation in the Sistema Único de Saúde (Unified Health System). Its starting point is a set of problems that remain to be overcomeas indicated by a significant convergence of the academic production in this area. Then, the text approachs the fragility of democracy in our republican history and the current political situation which show the persistence of an authoritarian political culture that legitimizes and naturalizes inequality, injustice and social oppression. Finally, it is argued that the democratic potential of the health councils and conferences needs to be repositioned. Those instances of participation should have not a closed conformation, but instead they must be able to produce an amplification and socialization of social relevant debates.

Author Biography

Francini Lube Guizardi, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Escola Fiocruz de Governo - Fiocruz Brasília, Laboratório de Educação, Mediações Tecnológicas e Transdisciplinaridade em Saúde (Lemtes).

Pesquisadora em Saúde Pública da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, atua no Laboratório de Educação, Mediações Tecnológicas e Transdisciplinaridade em Saúde (Lemtes), da Escola Fiocruz de Governo - Fiocruz Brasília. Vice-líder do Núcleo de Estudos em Democratização e Sociabilidades em Saúde (grupo de pesquisa - CNPq), e pesquisadora do Laboratório de Pesquisas sobre Práticas de Integralidade em Saúde- LAPPIS-IMS-UERJ (grupo de pesquisa - CNPq).

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Published

2015-10-08

How to Cite

Guizardi, F. L. (2015). The indispensable self-criticism: notes on the challenges to health social control. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v9i3.1028

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2015)

Section

Notes on current situations

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