Um olhar sobre a dinâmica do conselho de saúde de um município da região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte / MG

Abstract

The Brazilian Health Reform highlighted the social control as one of the achievements of the Brazilian Constitution in 1988. Since then, the community will have the right to participate in strategy formulation, implementation and monitoring of health policies, through collegiate institutions called Conferences and Boards of Health. The aim of this study is to analyze the dynamics of a Board of Health municipality in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte in relation to public health policies. This is a quantitative and qualitative research that aims to identify the operation, organization and priorities presented in the meetings of the Municipal Health Council (MHC) through the analysis of secondary data. After a thorough reading of the minutes of the plenary of the MHC of the current government, we highlighted in the results the most relevant aspects such as frequency of meetings, participation of users have issues addressed by the counselors and advisers who were categorized as Guidelines and management tool System Unified Health (SUH); Health policy and strategy formulation; Financial and budgetary health; Surveillance control and evaluation of health services; Needs of the population. We conclude that although the organization of the Municipal Health Council is within the parameters established by federal laws, there is a deficiency in its dynamics of functioning related to the functions assigned to it. It is inferred that this finding should be not only the lack of preparedness of the population to exercise social control as well as the low priority that is given by municipal managers in this democratic space.