Governance in public health: mechanisms and evaluatory criteria in citizen participation processes

Abstract

This essay lends itself to a comparative analysis between the methodology of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), designed to assess the maturity of governance in the Brazilian Health Councils, and the evaluation criteria in citizen participation processes proposed by the Government Institute and Public Policies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (IGOP). Initially, this study deals with the pertinence and the representativeness of the Health Councils in the local context in which they are located. Then, it discusses the structural weaknesses and the worrying incipience of such collegiate in issues related to public governance. As for the results achieved, the work revealed that the TCU and IGOP models, although they were developed to meet different demands and realities, when confronted with each other, presented several points of convergence. So that, except for the necessary adaptations, the matrices seek to fulfill the same objective, namely: to instrumentalize the population to carry out a social control of public policies, in a more efficient, effective and effective manner.