Paula Fernandes Furbino Bretas

Discursos e sentidos da participação popular em um centro de saúde de Belo Horizonte [doi: 10.5329/RECADM.2014016]

O objetivo neste artigo e identificar quais e como os sentidos sobre a participacao popular sao construidos por diferentes atores sociais relacionados a um centro de saude de Belo Horizonte. Desde 1988, a tematica da participacao popular vem ganhando espaco de debate nas politicas publicas. Contudo, alguns autores questionam se essa participacao ocorre como forma de discussao e deliberacao, ou se apenas e utilizada como fachada para apresentacao de propostas ja concebidas pelos administradores dos orgaos publicos. Os instrumentos de coleta utilizados foram entrevistas semi-estruturadas e grupo focal, tendo sido os dados analisados a luz da analise critica de discurso. As conclusoes sugerem que os diferentes sentidos atribuidos a participacao popular dirigem aos gestores desafios relacionados a lidar com distintas expectativas no cotidiano do centro de saude. Palavras-chave Discursos. Sentidos. Participacao popular. Centros de saude. Belo Horizonte. DISCOURSES AND SENSES OF POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN A HEALTH CENTER FROM BELO HORIZONTE Abstract Our goal in this paper is to identify what and how senses of popular participation are built by different social actor related to a health center of Belo Horizonte. Since 1988, popular participation theme has been developed and gaining space in public policy debate. However, some authors argue if this participation occurs as a way of discussion and deliberation or if is just used as a fachade to presentation of proposals already conceived by public managers. Collect data tools used were semi structured interviews and focus group. Data were analyzed through critical discourse analysis. Conclusions suggest that different senses related to popular participation challenge public managers to deal, daily, with different expectations at health center. Keywords Discourses. Senses. Popular participation. Health centers. Belo Horizonte.

Discursos e sentidos da participação popular em um centro de saúde de Belo Horizonte

Our goal in this paper is to identify what and how senses of popular participation are built by different social actor related to a health center of Belo Horizonte. Since 1988, popular participation theme has been developed and gaining space in public policy debate. However, some authors argue if this participation occurs as a way of discussion and deliberation or if is just used as a fachade to presentation of proposals already conceived by public managers. Collect data tools used were semi structured interviews and focus group. Data were analyzed through critical discourse analysis. Conclusions suggest that different senses related to popular participation challenge public managers to deal, daily, with different expectations at health center.