Educação Popular em Saúde e Institucionalização

Abstract

Since 1970, Popular Education have been incorporated in the health area. In the beginning, it was just peripherical activities but from 1988 - with the institution of the Public Health System (SUS) and now on, the Health Popular Education (EPS) conception is included at many areas of health production, like education, work and manegement. The studying object of this work has its focus in the process of institucionalization of EPS policy in the SUS, analysing the Health Municipal Secretary s Office of Recife, especialy the Executive Management of Basic Care, and those interfaces with another experiences of health education in the SUS. For understanding the contradictions of the Inside-Outside process of Popular Education in the Secretary s Office is necessary a refletion about the health popular education history and contributions, concerning the extended conception of health and the democratic and participative Management of Public Health System.The research shows EPS amid educators and managers as an ideological struggle process between the different compreensions of technical and political skills, for guarantee the institutionalization and legitimation of EPS. It shows also a try of overule these struggles, showing limits and possibilities on constructing strategies and a public agenda for the enpowerment of EPS policy in the SUS context.