Análise das relações de poder na política nacional de saúde bucal: o dito e o visto

• Autor(a) principal: ANDRADE, Flávia Reis de
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/0013000000t4k
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1384
• topic: Política de saúde; poder; saúde bucal; Health policy; power, oral health; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ODONTOLOGIA

In order to consolidate the principles underlying the Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde SUS) and with the aim of acting on evidence arising out of epidemiological research in dental health, the Ministry for Health decided to structure the National Policy for Dental Health (NPDH). This study sets out to analyze the power relationships in the drawing up of the NPDH. It is a descriptive study which uses the qualitative method as its approach. The data was obtained through individual semi-structured interviews with 15 participants. The content analysis technique was used for the interpretative examination of the material transcribed. The following categories emerged: participant actors, type of participation, initial outline, (re)discussion lists, political context, present impasses and perspectives. The participant actors were divided into two groups: individual and collective. The former, a coherent group, was made up of people who identified with the victorious political project of the 2002 presidential elections, and who had undoubtedly struggled to build the SUS. It was the task of the second group to give approval to what the first had expounded. The interviewees were influential in the shaping of the NPDH, both through the research they undertook (academy) and through the movements in which they participated (services, militancy). It is impossible to define precisely the moment when the drawing up of the NPDH started, as it was a slow process taking place over at least a quarter of a century. The most visible milestone for the beginning of the broad official and unofficial debates which outlined the Policy, was the result of a series of reflections starting with the Movement for Sanitary Reform. Thus, the NPDH is made up of a set of deliberations arising out of different moments of discussion, but especially the meeting held in the Municipality of São Paulo, following on the election results of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva s campaign for Presidency of the Republic in 2002. This meeting defined the proposal presented to the members of the Governmental Transition Commission and it marked the beginning of a period of intense normative work by the Health Ministry s Advisory Commission to the National Coordination of Dental Health. This resulted in the drawing up of a document entitled Guidelines on the National Policy for Dental Health , ratified by the 3rd National Conference on Dental Health. The NPDH now presents symptoms of growth as well as those of early degeneration. As potential internal weaknesses, one can cite the improper management of financial resources in particular and the growing tendency of the NPDH to be characterized as a provider of specialized odontological services. However, the greatest preoccupation is that the people who did not in fact participate in drawing up the Policy (for lack of opportunity) are today the pillars of its consolidation. Those who try to understand the process of drawing up the NPDH frequently come up against the nouns group and consensus. This therefore shows a clear approximation to the Arendtian concept of power. However, the present preoccupying indexes of the internal degeneration of the Advisory Commission would point towards another form of power in the implantation phase of the National Policy for Dental Health.