Social participation in the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) ensures that users have an important influence on its construction. However, we postulated that various ways of manifesting this participation exist, going beyond those already instituted. We took the view that these are resistance movements, called rhizomatic participation. With the aim of mapping their occurrence in the daily routine of health centers, we created strategies and instruments within a qualitative research approach inspired by a cartographic stance and implication analysis. The movements perceived were grouped into three types of analysis providers: those that said things, those that said bad things and those that said nothing. We took into consideration the conditions that gave rise to occurrences and the effects that these conditions produced. We suggest that rhizomatic participation movements should be understood as health service analysis points, because making them explicit makes it possible to rethink the practices instituted within SUS.
Social participation; Brazilian National Health System; Health Centers