Fórum de saúde e produção do comum: o caso de um fórum da rede de atenção psicossocial do Município de São Paulo

Abstract

The present study proposes to analyze the health forum as a device for the creation of healthcare networks, in conjunction with the idea of production of the commons, hereby understood, alike with Espinosa, as everything that results from the gathering of people who establish multiple and equivalent mannerisms and whose effect is the increase of potential in each one. The health forums are organizational arrangements that bring together health professionals from different departments to debate and negotiate strategies for building Brazil’s publicly funded healthcare system (SUS), as well as critical analysis of health practices within itself and joint networks. By setting itself up as a border place in public policy, the aforementioned instrument, bears the potential to promote democratic ways of doing / thinking about health. The research was conducted from observant participation in a health forum in the Northern Zone of São Paulo, Brazil, with the sole purpose of analyzing how the sociability experimentation, the production of the commons and the collective construction of creative strategies operate inside the device. The main theme of the discussion forum is the Psychosocial Attention Network, which aims to create links between the basic healthcare devices, mental health, hospitals, amongst other areas beyond the healthcare network. All the collected material (themes, dialogues, affections) has been kept in a field diary, highlighting the concrete ways of establishing relationships in this collective space. The said material has been analyzed from the institutional review perspective, in the form of themes and critical events. It has been later presented in the form of construe scenes, emphasizing the affections and power relations which surround the attendants. Based on the theoretical recovery of network concepts and the production of the commons, and with the assistance of authors such as Espinosa, Negri and Teixeira, we speculate the place of the health forum in the framing of SUS. We also indicate the forum as a boundary between the inside and the outside, the public and the private, a place of displacement of senses, in which it is possible to identify community areas which provide creative solutions for the healthcare creation