Participation of civil society in the National Health Information and Informatics Policy (PNIIS)

Abstract

For this study, we understand the State as a form of organization of political power with sovereignty and its role to ensure security, justice and economic and social well-being. Such attributions can undergo changes, with greater or lesser emphasis, which contribute to the State to change and establish new models of behavior and values. This study is part of the research that was developed, presented and approved in the doctoral course in Educational Sciences at the University of Minho. We use theoretical framework approaches from public policies, social movements, educational policies and health information. The object in perspective is the National Policy on Health Information and Informatics in Brazil. It is, therefore, a research with a qualitative approach, whose purpose is to reconsider or reconstruct the reality of the observed phenomena. As an investigation method, we chose to develop an explanatory study, whose data collection was a bibliographical research. As a result, we point out that in today's society, both the information and the means available to obtain it, offer the individual empowerment, thus, information is an important element for citizen participation and for this, in the field of health information policy, the systems should promote information and strengthen the capacity of public policies.