Abstract

SERAPIONI, Mauro  and  MATOS, Ana Raquel. Participation in health: amongst limits and challenges, paths and strategies. Rev. Port. Sau. Pub. [online]. 2013, vol.31, n.1, pp.11-22. ISSN 0870-9025.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rpsp.2012.12.008.

This article analyses the question of citizen participation in health, evaluating the major limits and the challenges already identified, as well as the strategies to be approached. This work outlines the origins of the participation in health, surveys the factors that stimulated it and identifies the recommendations that have been prepared in the scope of health promotion. It also explores some of the main debates related to this subject, namely those associated to the level of the processes that fit the involvement of the consumers, to the question of their representativeness, to the qualification of the citizens given by their participation and to the debates on the affectivity that the participation in health has awakened.

Keywords : Participation; Health systems; Citizens; Community capacitation; Evaluation of participation.

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