Abstract
The 1988 Constitution increased the Public Prosecutor's Office attributions and facilitated social participation through management councils in the construction of public policies and in the implementation of social control. In this context, it is necessary to reflect critically on the Public Prosecutor's Office work and its interaction with Health Councils to strengthen social control in the National Unified Health System. We conducted a systematic literature review to identify the national panorama of the relationship between the Public Prosecutor's Office and Health Councils with a view to providing answers on this institution's contributions toward effective social control in the National Unified Health System (SUS). The following databases were consulted: PubMed, BVS, CAPES Journals and BDTD. We included 17 studies, papers and dissertations, which were selected in the period 2006-2015. Results summarize that the Public Prosecutor's Office should focus its activities on health, especially on the operative and extrajudicial matrix, in order to boost popular participation and overcome Health Councils' shortcomings. An essential dialogue between the Public Prosecutor's Office and Health Councils is in place and mutually benefits the strengthening and effectiveness of social control in the SUS.
Highlights
The right to health stems from contemporary constitutionalism[1] and is a primordial human right[2]
In the extrajudicial and resolutive action of the Brazilian MP, activity in which this study is projected, one observes the oversight of public policies of the social rights protected by the Federal Constitution[7], among which is the right to health
This paper aims to build a map of the national academic production on the subject in order to apprehend the results evidenced by investigations that have proposed to analyze and understand MP’s practices for the strengthening of social control exercised by Health Councils
Summary
The right to health stems from contemporary constitutionalism[1] and is a primordial human right[2]. The contemporary social dynamics imposed new stances on collective stakeholders, and representative democracy was questioned as a method capable of responding satisfactorily to the demand for society’s engagement[5]. In this context, the process of establishing the Unified Health System (SUS), from the Health Reform to the 1988 Federal Constitution, which was consolidated and regulated by laws 8080/90 and 8142/90, set the standards of the new health system, institutionalizing community participation and regulating social control[6] in innovative fashion. Lehmann[8] says that the foundation for the MP’s work, aiming at effective popular participation in the SUS is provided for in the new constitutional framework, ensuring the availability and proper functioning of democratic mechanisms and tools of power, including population participation
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