ASPECTS OF AUTONOMY AND HETERONOMY IN THE EXERCISE OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN A MUNICIPAL HEALTH COUNCIL

Municipal health councils, instances of civic participation in the management of the Unified Health System (SUS), were created by Law No. 8,142 of December 28, 1990. The spaces for popular participation in the public agenda are thus settled, specifically in Health, conferring differentiated character to the municipal management, which is assumed as social control. In this context and through the role and responsibilities attributed to the councils, this paper has the proposal to analyze the exercise of social control by the municipal health council in the city of Juiz de Fora. For that, a literature review was carried out in order to base this research and to assist in data processing. Regarding methodological procedures, this qualitative study used as data collection techniques semi-structured interviews, documentary research and non-participant observation, and the data were analyzed based on content analysis. The analyzes suggest incompleteness in the autonomy of the council, when traits of heteronomy are identified.