Conselho Municipal de Saúde de Itapetininga: suas ações e a participação popular entre 2011 e 2012

Abstract

This research looked for handle the question of the Municipal Health Council formation in Itapetininga, its actions and at the same time get knowledge about how is the popular participation in this municipal sphere. The theorist support was made through specific bibliography and documents that refer to council’s formations, bases taken by the Federal Constitution and laws that regulate it. The bibliographic research had an exploratory and a descriptive fabric, in a quanti-qualitative nature. The results of this study were demonstrated among the monograph with some data made through informal interview with the counselors and questionnaires that were tabulated, handling subjects related with the target of describing the action with the intention of verifying the popular participation in the CMS. In this meaning, the meetings of the Municipal Council and local Councils were pointed. This research reported the data collected and a quick historic about the health and care evolution in Brazil, the creation of SUS and the CMS. After that, the goals of CMS, its composition and actions were pointed too. The approach had also the intention of publish and let available to people that don’t have access to the municipal entities and don’t know the true meaning of councils, getting awareness that everybody’s contribution through observation, projects and another things help the collective health and demands of the city or local zone.