ABSTRACT
This article is the unfoldment of a research whose objective was to analyze the relation between the sanitary movement and the political parties of Marxist matrix in the period corresponding to the emergence of the social space of the Brazilian Sanitary Reform (RSB) (1974-85). This article is based on this research and analyzes the relationship between the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes) and the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). It uses articles, documents and interviews with leaders of the RSB, using the referential of reflexive sociology. The results point to the relationship between the Cebes and the PCB in the formation of leaders of the movement, however, this influence did not mean the loss of autonomy of the entity in the process of fight for the RSB.
KEYWORDS:
Health care reform; Health policy; Political systems