The trajectory of an interinstitutional working group for the promotion of equity in health in municipal management

Abstract:

The Brazilian National Health Service (SUS) has one of its principles the equity, and in 2013, aiming to promote health actions to make it effective, the Ministry of Health (MS) created the Policy for the Promotion of Equity in Health. However, creating this public policy does not guarantee its applicability in the daily life of health care, being necessary to reorganize the work processes through the permanent education of health professionals to face discrimination in each reality and involving the different social actors. This article aims to retrace the trajectory of the Municipal Interinstitutional Working Group (GTI-M) to promote equity in health in the management of Cachoerinha, a municipality located in Rio Grande do Sul. To this end, an experience report was made through the documentary analysis of this trajectory in the period from 2015 to 2019. It was obtained that the GTI-M of Cachoerinha, RS, provided strategic initiatives to promote equity for the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals (LGBT), black and immigrant population, contributing to the applicability of the policy proposed by the MS.

Keywords:
Brazilian National Health Service; equity; public policy; social discrimination; permanent education