Atenção básica, liderança comunitária e políticas públicas em saúde e comunidade

Abstract

The participation of community leaders in planning actions for decision-making in the health sector is still little explored, even after the emergence of some guiding documents such as the National Policy for Primary Care and SUS. Compliance with these documents ratifies this participation as being of fundamental importance in the development of community inspection and performance. Thus, it is necessary to investigate what are the weaknesses established to create the necessary link between leaders and health so that the population has an increasingly active voice in defending their rights over health services. The study was cross-sectional with a qualitative approach, with community leaders of three Neighborhood Associations in the urban area of the municipality of Pesqueira / PE as research objects. The procedures developed resulted from interviews conducted through a semi-structured questionnaire that was previously approved by the Ethics Committee.