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FORTALECIMENTO DO CONTROLE SOCIAL EM SAÚDE MENTAL: ESTRATÉGIAS E POSSIBILIDADES

2016; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SÃO CARLOS; Volume: 24; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4322/0104-4931.ctore0691

2238-2860

Luí­s Felipe Ferro,

Public Health in Brazil

The Social Control guidelines for public policy obtained legislative framework with the drafting of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution.Although expected to provide control, supervision, and joint planning of public actions, Social Control still shows weaknesses in its pragmatic application.In the Brazilian context, the health sector presents similar difficulties in spite of its pioneering role in the construction of a legislative body to support the practice of social control.Aiming to confront this issue, a classroom course it was developed to provide popular education for the exercise of Social Control of public health actions, with focus on mental health.This course started in 2010 in the municipality of Curitiba, and it is currently in its tenth class.This article seeks to report this experience through the presentation of the course structure, content, and strategies applied during its maturation process.It is intended to provide a critical and reflective field for the composition of actions related to the Social Control theme that enable the strengthening of vulnerable populations and the collective construction of the "Sistema Único de Saúde" (Brazilian National Health System).