Access to basic water and sanitation services, the local public health goods, is a human right and a public health necessity. Provision of these services is typically devolved to Local Governments to ensure they correspond to the local needs. In rural India, such a correspondence is sub-optimal, with high local needs and poor provision by the Local Governments (Panchayats). The citizen participation in Panchayat's public deliberative meetings (Grama Sabha) is weak. The community context is characterised by social fragmentation and high socio-economic inequality. This research examined, whether and how better deliberative participation in Panchayat meetings was associated with better provision of these services by the Panchayats. The research used a three-staged systematic sampling method. Using correlational field survey design it gathered primary data from 99 panchayats in Karnataka State, and from 99 villages and 396 individuals within these Panchayats. Factor analytic and multivariate regression techniques were used to analyse the data in the statistical software, Stata® v.13. Results suggest, better Grama Sabha meetings (that were convened more frequently, attended by a higher number of people with better representativeness, where discussions approximate to the deliberative norms: reciprocal, pro-social and accountable; and decisions taken have a common good orientation) were associated with better provision of water and sanitation services by the Panchayat. Further analysis suggested two possible explanations for this association: First, the individuals who participated more frequently in deliberative meetings of the Panchayat and where discussions approximated to the deliberative norms; were associated with: • Better information on availability and accessibility to services; • Better external political efficacy, a perception of greater responsiveness of the Panchayat to their needs and their efforts to influence it; and hence engage evenly in discussions; • Better sense of community, a greater willingness to cooperate and coordinate, to find mutual needs and seek convergence when they are heterogeneous. Above findings suggest, in a participatory setting, these individuals can be associated with better capability to collectively engage; to articulate, communicate and identify the mostii common of their service needs and frame it as a collective demand, through policy objective, for provision by the Panchayats. Second, better Grama Sabha meetings were associated with better rule of law in policy administration at the Panchayat level. This suggests, rule-bound conversion of policy objectives into actual service outputs; a reflection of responsiveness and accountability of the bureaucratic action in achieving administrative commitment to the legislative goals. In conclusion, better deliberative participation can be associated with better capability of the individuals to engage in collective action. This can improve the correspondence between the needs and the provision; by strengthening individuals' collective demand for the services and by improving the responsiveness of the Panchayat in the supply of these services.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Sarah Felipe Santos e Freitas - 2018.pdf: 1906611 bytes, checksum: 5fded1369095ebf0b0c612b533e6da18 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The research results of an investigation that purpose the comprehention of the links that permeat the relation between work and health inthe insertion of the professor of physical education in the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS). As specific objetives: To understand the constitutive links from the brazilian health system, his totality and contradictions; Understand the the relation of physical education with the public and collective health, analyse the programs/projects/ SUS policies and identify in which are insert the profession Physical Education, understand the historical course and legal formation of Physical Education in Brazil, Understand how materializes the insertion of the professor of physical education in UHS. For the understanding the object in its details, essence, complexity and totality it has chosen the dialetical-hitorical materialism method in which all analysis are guide by the knowlege that what is set in the reality can only be understood without being reductionist through the acquaintance of the material relations tha gave origins to it, observing in the objetc all its social-historical dynamics. The methodology used in the fullfilment of the empirical research was data collection in the e-MEC platform. (Eletronic monitoring system of the process that order the superior education in Brazil – Ministry of Education) in National Institute of Study and Educational Research (Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais - INEP), and the Nacional Cadaster of Establishment (Cadastro Nacional de Estabelecimentos de Saúde - CNES). The data shows that the insertion of the Physical Education in the SUS suceed through programs/ projects/ SUS policies, namely, Psychosociall Care Center (Centro de Atenção Psicossocial – CAPES), Family Health Support Center (Núcleo de Apoio a Saúde da Família – NASF) and the Health Fitness Center (Academia da Saúde). As relative to formation, it was identify that the Physical Education in Brazil has been lead by the private sector, which has a degree in Prevailing Physical Education, and a teaching modality that emerges is an EAD. As relative to the quantitative of registrations it shows a continuous increase in the numbers of registers, admissions and conclusions in the Physical Educations course. / A pesquisa resulta de uma investigação que teve como objetivo a compreensão dos nexos que permeiam a relação trabalho e saúde na inserção do professor de Educação Física no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). São objetivos específicos: compreender os nexos constitutivos do sistema de saúde brasileiro, sua totalidade e suas contradições; compreender a relação da Educação Física com a saúde pública e coletiva; analisar os programas/projetos/políticas do SUS e identificar em quais estão inseridos a profissão Educação Física; compreender o percurso histórico e legal da formação em Educação Física no Brasil; compreender como se materializa a inserção do professor de Educação Física no SUS. Para a compreensão do objeto em seus pormenores, sua essência, sua complexidade e sua totalidade, optou-se pelo método do materialismo histórico-dialético, no qual todas as análises são guiadas pelo entendimento de que o que está posto na realidade só poderá ser abrangido, sem risco de reducionismo, por meio da compreensão das relações materiais que lhe deram origem, observando no objeto toda a sua dinâmica sócio-histórica. A metodologia utilizada na execução da pesquisa empírica foi coleta de dados na plataforma e-MEC (sistema eletrônico de acompanhamento dos processos que regulam a educação superior no Brasil – Ministério da Educação), no Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais (INEP), e no Cadastro Nacional de Estabelecimentos de Saúde (CNES). Os dados evidenciam que a inserção da Educação Física no SUS se dá por meio de programas/projetos/políticas do SUS, a saber, Centro de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS), Núcleo de Apoio a Saúde da Família (NASF) e Programa Academia da Saúde (PAS). No que se refere à formação, identifica-se que a formação em Educação Física no Brasil tem sido regida pelo setor privado, que tem a licenciatura em Educação Física predominante, e a modalidade de ensino que desponta é a EaD. No que se refere ao quantitativo de matrículas, evidencia-se um aumento