O controle social e a saúde indígena: um estudo dos conselhos de saúde do Distrito Sanitário Especial Indígena de Manaus - AM

Abstract

This work is the result of a research carried out through the Post-graduation Program on the Amazon Society and Culture of the Federal University of Amazonas. It is about health councils of the Indigenous Sanitary District of Manaus, which is one of the thirty-four districts organized in Brazil as from the implementation of the new policy on health assistance to these people. The study addressed to the need of a discussion about health policy in Brazil, and specifically the indigenous health policy and indigenous movements, topics that are closely related to the health councils issues. This dissertation aims at presenting the limits and the progresses of the social control in the district, and the impact of the heath policy that has been being implemented accordingly to the analysis of the health councils actions with the indigenous movements. Thus, this investigation restructures the organization process of the health councils in Brazil, especially the one in Manaus. It is questioned to what extent such social participation channels, which are Stated-based and in this case the indigenous intervention, have provided effective participation of the system users and how the relationship between counselors and managers is established. Also, how these participations channels are organized, what political restrains and progresses are so that real decision power is assured.