Reforma sanitária e a construção histórica do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS): concepção de saúde pública, universalidade e controle social

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of research on the historical process and the legacy of the Sanitary Reform and the historical construction of the Unified Health System - SUS in Brazil. In this sense, it is understood that the Sanitary Reform Movement, as a historical and social phenomenon, can be analyzed as an idea, a proposal, a project and a movement, and to inquire about the historicity of this object in the process of rupture and continuity of the events, composes the elements for its analysis, within the limits of the present dissertation of master. In the present study the historical, theoretical-methodological references cover the analyzes that favor the articulating character of struggles, diffuser of ideas, socio-political and ideological of the sanitarista movement, being configured in a social movement of struggle that accentuates the contradictions of the bourgeois order. In this sense, the Sanitary Reform is conceived as a movement that articulates other movements, in a perspective of composition of a historical block that formulated a conception of health, of universality and of social control, from an ideology that goes beyond the limits of capitalism, and is not exhausted in the formulation of the Unified Health System - SUS.