História da saúde pública no Brasil: a participação popular na "8ª Conferência Nacional de Saúde".

Abstract

This study analyze the importance of popular participation in the scenario of struggle for the right to public health in Brazil in the 1980s. The brazilian model of public health has had changed through popular movements for improvements in the health sector, passing mainly by the ―8th National Health Conference‖, in which there was pressure for the State to think more about this issue. It analyze the participation as a struggle at the 8th Conference, held in 1986, and the impact it has had on the formation of new policies that benefit the population. Through the reports and media, provided by the Ministry of Health, and the bibliographic works about the Conference, is in what this study is based. Considering the importance of public health policies as a resultant factor for mobilization is our principal preoccupation, as this is a subject that, according to our approach, should be discussed in academic studies from a historiographical perspective. It is a study that covers a field of Social and Daily History. Our theoretical references were collected from the selection of historians and sociologists that address issues of social issues, such as Sidney Chalhoub (2006), Eder Sader (1988) and Ilse Scherer Warren (1987).