Health surveillance and action research: the emergence of new technologies in the work process and research

Abstract

This article results from the action research “The implantation experience of the Sanitary Surveillance Forward Plan - in a municipal context”. The objective is to analyze the four technologies that have emerged from this inquiry, not usual in researches or in the process of work. They have been characterized as such, as they have assumed the position of research products, and instruments for information collection, contributing for the consolidation of the study. The first, called Stories from 'Real VISA', introduced the story telling technique based on experiences lived by the workers. The second, the seminary Sanitary Surveillance, Integrality and Social Mobilization, favored the inclusion of the community and the regulated sector in quarrels on the completeness and social mobilization. The third, the VISAMAIS project, aimed educational actions with sectors of the community, and the forth was the reception of the cultural exposition Sanitary Surveillance and Citizenship from CECOVISA/FIOCRUZ, as an approaching strategy involving the community and the actions in Sanitary Surveillance. These technologies have favorably influenced the Sanitary Surveillance's reality transformation, sign on the fundamentality of listening to multiple voices and accountability of the various subjects that constitute the health surveillance practice.