POTENCIALIDADES DA PARTICIPAÇÃO SOCIAL NO ÂMBITO DA ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE

Abstract

This article focuses on the potentialities of social participation at the level of Primary Health Care and aims to systematize the potentials currently documented, based on a qualitative systematic review of the literature in Brazilian scientific journals of the Scientific Electronic Library Online, between 2014 and 2022. Through the descriptors 'popular participation', 'community participation' and 'social participation' and the filters “Brazil” and “Health”, the studies related to Primary Health Care were selected, resulting in 88 articles. A qualitative meta-synthesis and two systematizations were applied, resulting in five main potentialities: a) Promoting changes in the relationships between the different social actors active in the health field (users, workers and managers); b) Exercise of democracy as an ethical principle of health actions; c) Production of processes for the construction of comprehensive care and health promotion with equity; d) Application of the constitutional principle of community participation as a guide for the management of public health policies; e) Formation of people in the perspective of health as a right. The expression in the literature of the potential of social participation in health is still timid. This review, by bringing together and dealing with such a building tool for doing in health, contributes to the deepening of this debate and, therefore, to citizenship.