title: The Forum for Defence of the Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde) and its role in building community participation in the fight against the privatization of health.
abstract: Based on a Foucauldian framework, this article discusses the involvement of the Forum for Defence of the Sistema Único de Saúde in the fight against health care privatization. Community participation is a locus of experience that produces subjects implicated in the production of public health care. The locus of experience in this instance derives from the rejection of private elements that historically have been part of Brazilian public policies. It is an experience that produces workers and service users as agents able to defend the public system and endowed with instituting power.
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitário Metodista do Sul - IPA, Brazil lutianelara@gmail.com lutiane.lara@metodistadosul.edu.br.
authors.forename: Lutiane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: de Lara
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors.forename: Neuza Maria de Fátima
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Guareschi
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003256:Community Participation; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs; D011332:Privatization; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D012935:Social Justice
keywords: community participation; health care privatization; locus of experience; social movements