Abstract
Supervision of a health system presupposes keeping an attentive eye on the health situation of populations, so as to understand health, illness and healthcare as indissociable manifestations of human existence. Taking this point of view, this article examines health practices from the basis of some of their processes of communication. These are markedly professional-centered in their logic, with their emphasis on scientific, vertical and authoritarian discourse, predominantly in the spaces of the Unified Health System (SUS). In the territory, the process of communication is determinant. As a result of social interaction in daily life, the communication process reterritorializes the elements of the social totality: people, companies, institutions are re-dimensioned in the logic. It is a characteristic space for activities that aim for a more horizontal and democratic flow of communication.
Highlights
We are living in a historic period of profound alteration of the way of life of people and societies, which is the result of the accelerated globalization of the economy, with expansion and massive incorporation of new technologies and new technical processes, by the productive sectors all over the planet
As a result of social interaction in daily life, the communication process reterritorializes the elements of the social totality: people, companies, institutions are re-dimensioned in the logic
We look at and underline the new aspects and proposals that emerge from the practice of health surveillance
Summary
We are living in a historic period of profound alteration of the way of life of people and societies, which is the result of the accelerated globalization of the economy, with expansion and massive incorporation of new technologies and new technical processes, by the productive sectors all over the planet. The central theme of the First Conference is “health surveillance: Law, Achievements, and Defense of a high-quality, Public SUS”3 – to be discussed from the basis of eight sub-themes, which include: debate on the role of health surveillance in individual and collective healthcare, integration of actions and processes of environmental oversight; epidemiological; health products; among others, the responsibilities of States and governments, and social participation in health surveillance, as well as other questions[3] Considering this group of themes, we can infer and explore impasses and obstacles in communication which have been put in the way of full realization of the right to promotion of health. Without taking a critical approach to this communication process we will forever be asking: How does health surveillance interact with society?
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