Abstract

RESTREPO VELEZ, Ofelia  and  VEGA ROMERO, Román. Social and community participation in primary health services - APS.. Rev. Gerenc. Polit. Salud [online]. 2009, vol.8, n.16, pp.153-164. ISSN 1657-7027.

In recognition of the 30th anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration, the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the District Secretary of Health of the city of Bogotá conducted the investigation, “Health for All: Learning from the Experiences of Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) Phase I (2004-2007)”. One objective of this study was to “identify, interpret and analyze the available evidence on participation and community empowerment experiences in PHC in the capital district from 2004 to 2007”. Given that local health administrators have proposed new discourses and programs such as Salud a Su Hogar (SASH), which encourage conditions that foster community empowerment, participation as a right and the democratization of power, the population of Bogotá was the target population in this study. While various categories of analysis have arisen, this report is concerned with those regarding the institutionalization and instrumentalization of community participation as it has occurred in Bogotá and the potential and limitations of current social participation policies with respect to promoting and developing participation as a right.

Keywords : Primary Health Care; consumer participation; citizen participation; democracy; right to health; equity in health; Primary Health Care; community health services; citizen participation; right to health care.

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