O CONTROLE SOCIAL NO SISTEMA ÚNICO DE SAÚDE: A EXPERIÊNCIA DE GOIÂNIA - EM DUAS GESTÕES (1988 a 1992 e 1993 a 1996)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand the historical process of the Unified Health System in Goiânia, the social control, its deployment and implementation in two different administrations: one from 1988 to 1992, management of PMDB and the second from 1993 to 1996, of PT. Social control, as the Constitution of 1998, indicates the possibility of doing a social relationship between state and society, in a public and democratic basis, to expand the access to basic health services through the popular participation in the Councils and Health Conference. This way, the effective participation of the people shows the struggle for a larger democracy, citizenship and consequently of public social policies, to express the possibility of breaking with the meritocratic profile, costumer and their exclusion. So, the study tried to know the process of participation of users in the health policy in Goiânia, through the City Council and Health Conference, while that period. For better understanding this study in an empirical reality, it was done a semi-structured interview for data collection, with questions guiding the research and allowing new ones. This increased the research by putting the interviewees free to express their opinion. After data collection and systematization of the answers applied to each interviewed person, there was a correlation between theoretical and empirical research in making the knowledge of the object, mediated by critical analysis.