RESUMO

Based on a Foucauldian framework, this article discusses the involvement of the Forum for Defence of the Sistema Único de Saúde in the fight against health care privatization. Community participation is a locus of experience that produces subjects implicated in the production of public health care. The locus of experience in this instance derives from the rejection of private elements that historically have been part of Brazilian public policies. It is an experience that produces workers and service users as agents able to defend the public system and endowed with instituting power.

Assuntos

Atenção à Saúde , Programas Nacionais de Saúde , Privatização , Brasil , Participação da Comunidade , Atenção à Saúde/economia , Atenção à Saúde/ética , Atenção à Saúde/legislação & jurisprudência , Atenção à Saúde/métodos , Política de Saúde , Humanos , Determinantes Sociais da Saúde , Justiça Social