Banca de DEFESA: JOMARA CÍNTIA DE ARAÚJO CARNEIRO

SOCIAL CONTROL IN SERIDÓ POTIGUAR: DIFFICULTIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE PERFORMANCE OF PRESIDENTS OF MUNICIPAL HEALTH COUNCILS

Social Control; Popular Participation; Municipal Health Council; Health Unic System. 

In order to encourage the proper functioning and greater participation in decisions on public health policies by the Municipal Health Councils of the Seridó Potiguar region,this project aimed to recognize and analyze the main challenges and difficulties faced by the presidents of the Municipal Health Councils of the municipalities in the Seridó region ofPotiguar to make these spaces more active and deliberative.For the development of the research, it was necessary to know the profile of the presidents, as well as their level of knowledge, and how the Municipal Health Councils are organized.It was based on bibliographic research, aiming at theoretical knowledge about popular participation and social control; and empirical research, to assess the application of this knowledge to reality.This was a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study, whose population consisted of the presidents of the Health Councils of the municipalities in the Seridó Potiguar Region.The collection of information was carried out through individual semi-structured online interviews and the completion of online forms.Data resulting from filling in the forms were analyzed using simple descriptive statistical analysis.The information resulting from the semi-structured interviews was transcribed and submitted to lexicographic textual analysis with the aid of the software Interface de R pour Analyses Multidimensionnelles de Textes et de Questionneires (IRAMUTEQ).The results that reveal the perception of the main challenges and difficulties of the presidents were analyzed in six classes:Need for a more empowered presidency, counselor's responsibility, motivation to preside, potentiation of social control, health plan inspectionand power to deliberate. It is concluded that it is necessary to develop projects aimed at the continued training of counselors,so that they can unleash competences and abilities to guarantee a quality of the exercise of Social Control,that meet local health needs and thus make the Health Council more effective.