Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:53:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CynthiaKFB.pdf: 259996 bytes, checksum: 72d1768f05307ec9d073fe9a47d87ab5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-08 / The present study aims to understand the process of Participation of the Health Council- CMS in the formularization, implementation and control of the Municipal health plan of Pedras de Fogo, through four criteria of quality of participation considered by Demo (1993): representation, legitimacy, base participation, and self-responsibility. The criteria of representation is related to the quality of politics of the representative over the representings. Legitimacy is related to the politics` quality of the process of participation based on norms and rules that stipulate the participation, the base participation is a necessary political support so that the power authorization directed to the representings can be effective and the self-responsibility refers to the capacity of being responsible when it concerns to the public service or property. Through the descriptive and exploratory study a qualitative method was adopted to consider the conditions of the participation of the twelve council members of the City council of Health of Pedras de Fogo, through a formulated Instrument based on the criteria of DEMO (1993). It was concluded that the quality of the participation of the council members of the CMS of Pedras de Fogo understands essential aspects of the criteria of quality considered by Demo (1993) but it shows fragilities as unfamiliarity with the norms that legitimize the performance of the council; unfamiliarity of its condition of being an agent and the importance of the participation of the base for the reinforcement of its participation, as well as inertia related to the check and rendering of accounts on its performance. This way it makes sense that the participation of the council in the four criteria of quality of politics considered in this paper needs to improve / O presente estudo visa compreender o processo de participa??o do Conselho Municipal de Sa?de - CMS na formula??o, implementa??o e controle do Plano Municipal de Sa?de de Pedras de Fogo, atrav?s dos quatro crit?rios de qualidade pol?tica da participa??o propostos por DEMO (1993): representatividade, legitimidade, participa??o de base e auto-responsabiliza??o. O crit?rio da representatividade relaciona-se ? qualidade pol?tica do representante em rela??o aos representados; a legitimidade se relaciona ? qualidade pol?tica do processo de participa??o fundamentada em normas e regras que condicionam a participa??o; a participa??o de base representa o apoio pol?tico necess?rio para que a delega??o de poder ao representante seja efetiva; e a auto-responsabiliza??o refere-se ? capacidade de responsabilizar-se quanto ao bem ou servi?o p?blico. Atrav?s de um estudo descritivo-explorat?rio, adotou-se uma abordagem qualitativa para avaliar as condi??es de participa??o dos doze conselheiros do Conselho Municipal de Sa?de de Pedras de Fogo, atrav?s de instrumento formulado com base nos crit?rios de DEMO (1993). Concluiu-se que a qualidade da participa??o dos conselheiros do CMS de Pedras de Fogo compreende aspectos essenciais dos crit?rios de qualidade propostos por Demo (1993), mas apresenta fragilidades como desconhecimento das normas que legitimam a atua??o do conselho; desconhecimento de sua condi??o de delegado e da import?ncia da participa??o de base para o fortalecimento de sua participa??o; in?rcia dos representados quanto ? consulta e presta??o de contas sobre a atua??o dos conselheiros, evidenciando que ? fundamental aprimorar a participa??o dos conselheiros nos quatro crit?rios da qualidade pol?tica considerados no estudo