Methodological and technopolitical challenges of participation and social control in health

Abstract

The article aims to explore issues relating to Participation and Social Control, taking as a backdrop methodological and technopolitical aspects experienced in the “Training in Monitoring and Evaluation for Social Control in the SUS” course, a partnership between ENSP/Fiocruz and the ISC/UFMT. The course aimed to strengthen Social Participation in the processes of formulating, implementing, and evaluating public policies through the instrumentalization of technical supporters and representatives of health councils and promoting the development of possibilities for applicability, replicability, and multiplicability of the theoretical-methodological framework. The article contains a section “Methodological Considerations”, exposing reflections involving the process of preparing the text; A “Conceptual Considerations” section, which discusses the concepts of Technopolitics, Participation and Social Control; A section “Problematizations and Challenges”, where considerations are made about the methodological and technopolitical limits and potentialities of the radicalization of Participation and Social Control vis-a-vis training in M&A for health advisors and supporters as multipliers, using mapping and comparison of fieldwork produced by course participants; At last, a “Final Considerations” section of the article.