Estudo das resoluções dos conselhos municipais de saúde de duas capitais do Brasil no período 2004-2013

Abstract

Health councils are institutions of participatory democracy. The councils' resolutions must be approved by the managers. This study analyses the resolutions that were not approved in the municipal health councils of Belo Horizonte and São Paulo from 2004 until 2013. The main goal is to assess whether there is a pattern influencing the approval or not of resolutions in the aforementioned municipal health councils given the party in power in the city. The methodology used was the descriptive analysis of the approved resolutions in the two capitals' health councils that did not present an approval registry at the executive level. The data was collected from each council's resolutions' files and websites, and the results related to the mayor's mandate and respective party. In the end, we could find that the decisions in those institutional areas of participatory democracy had a bigger recognition by the labor party (Partido dos Trabalhadores), followed by the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (Partido da Democracia Social Brasileira) and brazilian socialist party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro); and a lower rate of approval of such decisions by the front liberal party (Partido da Frente Liberal), democrats (Democratas) and social democratic party (Partido Social Democrata). We conclude that the parties with a socialist ideology have a greater respect for the studied participatory democracy policy than those with a liberal ideology.