MANAGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE STATE OF MINAS GERAIS UNDER THE VISION OF THE COUNCIL OF MUNICIPAL MANAGERS

ABSTRACT

The Municipal Health Councils Poles of the Planning Mesoregions in Health Management in the state of Minas Gerais. Was opted to analyse the institutional picture of the municipal health councils, in order to verify the rules that distinguished its creation and its functioning beyond the consequences of the institutional framework about the decision process with the help of Document Analysis Technique. During the meetings in the studied councils, has occurred the application of semi--structured of interviews and the survey of official data and information. The results show that the majority of the councils are established rightfully, with normative prevision about the plurality of the composition, publicity of its meetings and decisions, equal opportunities. The relevant conclusions of the research suggests a all this normative and legal movement corroborates to ensure the minimum function of a specific health council, in historically regions with few or none legacy of collective “struggles”, low civic engagement and weakened structural organization as a result of a low participation of the involved and few effective actions on behalf of the transparency, inspection and social control, particularly in the municipal context.

Management; Municipal Health Council; Deliberative Process; Institutional Framework