Practices reported in the Single Health System (SUS)

This book deals with the relationship between public health policies from the perspective of social control. It relies on the operators of complex thinking proposed by Edgar Morin, being them the hologram, the recursiveness and the dialogic. Initially, the section "Social movements in health: a look at the complexity" is presented, which theoretically deepens historical aspects of the consolidation of the Unified Health System (SUS) in the perspective of the Brazilian Sanitary Reform. With a view to the problematizations around the participation and social control in a municipality in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, the research offers the second section "Senses of health in the practices of the Municipal Health Council". This moment associates complex thinking to the production of themes of senses through narrated practices.Five representatives of the Municipal Health Council participated in this research, data that were associated with the production of a field diary and a conversation wheel, composing a dialogical relationship between the data. The analysis made possible the visibility not only of acts of social transformation in health, but also of the fragility of the culture of social participation within the System.