Gestão da Saúde no Brasil no pós Impeachment de 2016: reflexões a partir dos instrumentos de gestão governamental e de planejamento do SUS

Abstract

This paper, entitled “Health Management in Brazil after the Impeachment of 2016: reflections on government management and SUS planning instruments”, brings a study about the management of Health Policy in Brazil in light of critical social theory. The contextualization of main categories to the debate: State, management in capitalism, social policy, health management, health policy in Brazil. It deals with the subjects in question from the recognition of their historical determination and their tight relationship with the capitalist way of production. Its main objective is to reflect on the ethical and political dimension (the field of purposes) that involves the process of formal health management in Brazil in a particular social context of Brazilian history: the government of Michel Temer (afther the coup of 2016 until 2018). The study included bibliographic research on the foundation of the theoretical assumptions of analysis and documentary research (State Instruments of government management and SUS planning). Based on the defense of the constitutional, universal, integral, state, public and equitable SUS (Unique Health System), the present study shows that there is a relationship between the government management instruments of the period under analysis and the process of ideological legitimation. Disassemble of SUS, signaling an ethical and political direction aligned with the interests of capital.