ABSTRACT
The essay reflects on the Resolution nº 453/12 of the Ministry of Health and the National Health Council, which approved guidelines by instituting, reformulating and restructuring the functioning of Health Councils in facing their institutional legitimation and structuring, so that society feels the presence of the possibility of engaging in public health matters, without personal or financial costs, without delay and without timidity. Critical points are discussed that are capable of potentiate conflicts of understanding of the norms and impairments to the autonomy and the guarantee of the comprehensiveness of the social control in the public health policies.
KEYWORDS
Health Councils; Unified Health System; Public health