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0364/2025 - Community participation in the Family Health Strategy: historical, theoretical and methodological aspects of its implementation
Participação comunitária na Estratégia Saúde da Família: aspectos históricos, teóricos e metodológicos de sua implementação

Author:

• Pedro Cruz - Cruz, P - <pedrojosecruzpb@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0610-3273

Co-author(s):

• Maria Helena Magalhães de Mendonça - Mendonça, MHM - <mari.mendonca@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3917-9103
• Márcia Guimarães de Mello Alves - Alves, MGM - <marciagma@id.uff.br; marciagmalves@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5790-5941
• Daiana de Paiva Gomes - Gomes, DP - <daianagomes741@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4656-3652
• Acaahi Ceja de Paula da Costa - Costa, ACP - <acaahicosta@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8988-0215
• Luciano Bezerra Gomes - Gomes, LB - <lucianobgomes@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1957-0842


Abstract:

This article aims to review approaches to community participation in the historical and social context of Primary Health Care (PHC) to reflect on the critical reconstruction of the care model of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and the Unified Health System (SUS). The results of several evaluative studies with users and health professionals are presented, highlighting challenges to community participation in PHC, highlighting: the population's knowledge of the SUS and health as a human right; the imposition of social determinants of the health-disease process that weakens population participation; a shortage of financial and material resources to carry out activities; limited time and focus on the part of workers in developing these activities; a lack of management support for these initiatives; and a lack of interest on the part of some professionals in the dimension of community participation, preferring to focus exclusively on individual clinical care. The conclusion is drawn regarding the importance of community participation in the ESF for building a shared agenda between service providers, management, and the population to mobilize strategies that affirm life, well-being, and healthy and sustainable territories.

Keywords:

Community participation. Primary health care. Family health. Democracy. Territorialization.

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Cruz, P, Mendonça, MHM, Alves, MGM, Gomes, DP, Costa, ACP, Gomes, LB. Community participation in the Family Health Strategy: historical, theoretical and methodological aspects of its implementation. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/Oct). [Citado em 26/01/2026]. Está disponível em: http://www.cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/community-participation-in-the-family-health-strategy-historical-theoretical-and-methodological-aspects-of-its-implementation/19840?id=19840



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