E-democracy health in Brazil: searching for identifying participants in the development of health law

Abstract

This Communication provides the results of the first phase of the Franco-Brazilian research E-democracy health in France and Brazil: impact on the evolution of the health law. Within this research, health democracy is a process of reflection, dialogue and decision-making plans and it is claimed for providing health policies; in fact, health e-Democracy is a health policy exercise when mediated by information and communication technologies. The objective of this study is to identify participants that were involved in the health e-democracy in Brazil. We analyzed public consultation reports promoted by the National Agency of Supplemental Health, the National Health Surveillance Agency, the National Commission for Technology Incorporation under Unified Health System and the Ministry of Health in the year of 2014. As preliminary conclusions we point out a significant deficit of transparency regarding those studied virtual mechanisms and the need for standardization of data presented in its respective reports.