Importância da participação popular nas ações de saúde

Abstract

This work shows the importance of community participation in health activities. Claims, we can point those designed for better health conditions, requiring care, accessibility, comprehensiveness, universality and quality for everybody. In the eighth National Health Conference in 1986, was put into question the popular dissatisfaction. The conference joined forces with popular participation and created the foundations for health in 1988 was constitutionally guaranteed, from this moment on, it happens to be right for everyone and creates the Unified Health System (UHS). It is also established in law the principles and guidelines of the UHS. The paper aims to propose strategies for public participation in health care and how this can be accomplished in order to contribute to building a quality health care. The methodology was conducted literature. With the facts of transformation and reorganization of health arises Agent Program Community Health and later the Family Health Program, with the purpose of strengthening the principles and guidelines of the UHS, and to contribute to the new model of health. In this context, can we see the importance of social control, because we will be part of the construction of health. So, in this context, we found that it is not possible to think of health without popular participation. Social control is constitutionally guaranteed since 1988 and reinforced its importance in the Organic Laws of Health, through the creation of health councils and conferences. The PSF encourages participation, especially when it works in Health Education through valuable tools such as groups, promotion of waiting rooms, conferences, home visits and others. Popular participation is important because it contributes to the better functioning of health as possible to optimize the planning of actions, promotion of self care, strengthening the principles and guidelines of the UHS and others. So, we have the opportunity to put into practice the health care quality and promote a healthy social life, looking for factors that are essential for health, as well as how to act on them.