Conferências Nacionais de Saúde e a construção do Sistema Único de Saúde SUS: uma revisão / National Health Conferences and the construction of the Single Health System- SUS: a review
The aim of this article is to analyze the first 13 National Health Conferences based on the principle of community participation in the process of building the Unified National Health System (SUS). The National Health Conferences in Brazil have been a public space for the construction, organization and collective implementation of the SUS. The article analyzes, through a review of other studies, the factors that determined the success of a participatory process in the health conferences and examines the historical origins of the creation of the SUS in Brazil.