Auditoria participativa na gestão em saúde do município de Piraí Rio de Janeiro.

Abstract

This study is subject to participation of social control in healthcare management. The aim of this study is to analyze the experience of monitoring and control of public accounts by the Board of Health Pirai, State of Rio de Janeiro. Based on specific objectives: Describe the operation of the Municipal Health Council and the perceptions of counselors on participation, accountability and law; Identify the practices of counselors possibilities and limits of social control to ensure governance in municipal management in health and share lessons learned experience of political participation of the Municipal Health Council of SUS Pirai with other sectoral departments. As theoretical basis of this research, we present: Audit management in health and social control relating to guarantee comprehensive health care to the individual and collectivity. The methodology used consisted of qualitative approach. Data were collected through semi - structured interviews and analyzed using content analysis proposed by Bardin (2004). By analyzing the empirical totalities noted that CMS has Piraí performance beyond the control itself, as it has shown in their daily actions that demonstrate the application designed by the user as a member of the board and so active subject in the construction of their own health. What made it possible to conclude that the health management has ensured its legitimacy as the functionality and organization modeled carefully the legal needs of the population it serves and represents. Thus we may infer that audit is participatory in innovation in NHS management.