A participação popular na atenção primária de saúde: Um olhar crítico sobre participação e cidadania em Belo Horizonte.

Abstract

Popular participation and social control in the construction and strengthening of health policy constitute a health promotion strategy that promotes the confrontation of violence, provides health system users with a leading role in its construction and in the exercise of citizenship, not just being a consumer of the services offered, without knowledge and performance on the reality that surrounds them. This work aims to evaluate the participation of users of Primary Health Care in the city of Belo Horizonte in the Local Health Commissions, using the description of the profile of users of the basic health units in Belo Horizonte, who participated in the research. Also assess the factors that influence the participation and non-participation of users in the CLS, the relationship between participation and violence and assess the relationship between participation in the CLS and satisfaction with the services provided in the PHC. The methodology used was a survey conducted with users of Primary Health Care, through a semi-structured questionnaire, applied by the participating researcher, trained according to the project's methodology, 2017 being the reference year of data collection, stored in SPSS. Quantitative and qualitative study was carried out with the participation of the population in the CLS as an axis, built from fourteen dimensions, the fourth being the field for searching and responding to the hypothesis and objectives of the work. The results and discussion were achieved through the distribution of frequencies in univariate and bivariate tables with the association of variables by method of correspondence analysis. The results respond to the initial hypothesis and corroborate that the municipal management can build, together with the Councils and CLS, strategies for Social Control to be fully effective, led by Laws 8080 and 8142/90.