Management instruments on the Health Council’s agenda

Abstract

This analytical-descriptive study, based on documentary research regarding the assessment of budgeting and planning instruments in a Municipal Health Council of a medium-sized municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, in the period between March 2018 and March 2020. Data were collected from the official records of the ordinary and extraordinary meetings to, then carry out a thematic analysis assessing instruments and referrals, as well as the descriptive analysis of the deadlines predicted for the planning and budget calendars. The analysis of the assessments reinforces the democratic character of the council’s assessments, but with major limitations for the exercise of social control, due to the delay in the health budget planning calendar.

Keywords:
Brazilian National Health System; Health Planning; Social Control; Health Councils