SUS entre aspas: uma análise do discurso dos jornais Folha de S. Paulo e O Globo sobre as Conferências Nacionais de Saúde (1992-2015)

Abstract

This thesis aims to contribute to the reflections on the participation of communication in social practices, once the production of information and knowledge about public policies and spaces for participation that cross the discourse produced, debated and endorsed by the media. Thus, we discuss the communication interface between health and opening prospects for studies of the composite field of Communication and Health, which is marked by disputes of senses in which the centrality and the media potential reach that configures the communication as an important role in dialogue zone in function of the public health policies. The Federal Constitution of 1988, when incorporate some resolutions of the 8th National Health Conference (CNS), established the guarantee of health as a universal right and duty of the State taking as benchmarks the creation of the Unified Health System (SUS) and the institution of community participation as one of its guidelines. This mainstay, our research propose the analysis of the speeches materialized in the news published by newspapers Folha de S. Paulo and O Globo about the seven National Health Conferences held between 1992 and 2015 (from 9th to 15th CNS). From the Discourse Analysis devices, we verify the centrality of the media in mobilizing hegemonic meanings that also affect the functioning of the state, given the recurrence of discursive formations that give it responsibility for an alleged mismanagement and underfunding of public health concomitantly the neoliberal discourse. We observed, although to a lesser extent, the presence of meanings that refer to the social control of public health policies. It is, therefore, a cross look about the power relations manifest in the discourse produced about health through communicative mechanisms.