FAMILY HEALTH STRATEGY OF PARTICIPATION IN MUNICIPAL HEALTH PLAN CONSTRUCTION: AN EXPERIENCE REPOR

• Main Authors: Adilson Ribeiro dos Santos, Rose Manuela Marta Santos, Alba Benemérita Alves Vilela, Márcia Verônica Oliveira, Renato Portella da Silva Segundo, Soraya Dantas Santiago dos Anjos
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia 2015-08-01
• Series: Revista Saúde.com
• Subjects: Health Planning; Health Management; Community Participation
• Online Access: http://www.uesb.br/revista/rsc/ojs/index.php/rsc/article/view/281/321

The Municipal Health Plan is an important planning tool in the management at the Unified Health System and at the same time, a mechanism for popular participation. This study aims to report the experience of the Municipal Health Plan’s workshop conducted by a Family Health Program team in a municipality in the south of Bahia Construção do Plano Municipal de Saúde. in the year 2014. This is an experience report that consolidates itself as a descriptive research tool that presents a reflection about an action that addresses a situation experienced in the professional interest of the scientific community. The workshop included the team and community members’ participation. The population's health problems follow a national trend, highlighting problems like diabetes, hypertension, worms, abuse of alcohol and other drugs inaddition to viruses. The health system problems reveal the weaknesses in local management of the Unified Health System by the insufficiency and/or lack of resources such as drugs, tests, equipment maintenance and others. Therefore, we emphasize the importance of the Municipal Health Plan as a management tool of the Unified Health System that allows closeness between users, workers and managers, as well as being a space for policy vocalization, contributing to the real effectiveness of the Unified Health System, based on participatory planning in accordance with the needs of users.