Municipal health conferences: the organized social movement to create health interventions

Abstract

The objective of this exploratory study was to understand the discourse leading to the health intervention proposals approved during the Health Conferences held in Curitiba-PR between 1997 and 2007. The results show that the approved health interventions were related to epidemiological indexes, the funding of the system, the change of the health care model, and the participation of the organized social movement. To broaden the participation, discussions were carried out before the final session, in which the number of participants remained nearly constant. In the final remarks it was observed that no reviews were done regarding the determinants of the health-diseases process; there was a tendency to make individuals accountable for promoting changes in their reality, and the model of broadened participation allows for reflection on the representivity of social movements in the political decisions within the sector.