Fortalecimento da participação e do controle social na gestão do Sistema Único de Saúde: estudo de caso do PoloSUS

Abstract

The present workis the result of a dissertation research that had as background the strengthening of participation and social control in the management of the SUS. The research development is based on the case study of the Pole Institutional Project to Strengthen Participative Management of the Unified Health System (SUS), PoloSUS. PoloSUS is the result of a partnership between the Department of Strategic and Participatory Management of the Ministry of Health (SGEP-MS) and the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), through the School of Government and Citizenship (EGC), based on the National Policy on Strategic and Participatory Management of SUS (ParticipaSUS), with the main objective of promoting the strengthening of participatorymanagement policies within SUS, through the generation of knowledge and training of public managers and social leaders, gathering elements of extension, research and social technological innovation. The partnership covered 280 municipalities subdivided into 17 polo municipalities. The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the effectiveness of partnerships between the Ministry of Health and entities such as universities and NGOs for the implementation of public policies, and to identify the incentivesand obstacles in the implementation of these partnerships. The initial hypothesis is that the Government seeks these partnerships to have greater capillarity in the territory and / or to not have all the expertise required in its staff to carry out the policy. It is also sought to evaluate if the partner entity, in the present case study, the UFJF, also had the conditions to execute the objectives delineated in the term of agreement. In this way, it is desired to know what was the PoloSUS, how it worked -with its achievements and failures -and the possible effects generated by the project, through interviews and use of the case study based on the phases / cycles of public policy analysis.