Social management and health planning

a study of the municipal health plans of the route of production

Abstract

The organizational principles of the Unified Health System (SUS) guide the planning of public health policy in a decentralized, regionalized and upward manner, with the participation of organized civil society, social movements, councils and social control. The formulation of public health policies must, therefore, observe precepts of deliberative citizenship and be built through participatory planning. In light of the above, this essay rests its object of study on the municipal planning of health policy in the municipalities that make up the health region 20, called the Production Route, located in the north of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, twenty-six municipalities of small population, with Palmeira das Missões as administrative headquarters. The purpose of this study is to verify if the process of making municipal health plans complies with the social management principles, embodied in the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the governing legislation of the SUS. To do so, we start with the following question: Does the process of confection of the municipal health plans of the Production Route observe the precepts of social management? To reach the objective of the study was used a bibliographical survey and documentary analysis. Finally, municipal plans will only be tools capable of promoting the common good if participatory planning is understood by the municipal entity as a fundamental and guiding step in the process of implementing public health.

Keywords: social control; social management; participatory planning; regionalization; Health Unic System.