Health participation and territorial development: health experiences in a commune in Southern Chile

Abstract

The Model Community Health constitutes an important aspect in the territorial development and it can contribute to the health care management. To investigate this phenomenon, in the year of 2011 a quantitative-transverse study is applied to three groups of people: Hospital Professional, Clinic, and Community Leaders, who actively participate in Health, integrating an universe of 66 people. The goal was to establish the notion of the participation of the professionals and community leaders that actively participate in Health, for this reason, it is investigated the association between the Information Offices, Claims, Suggestions and Congratulations (OIRS) and the activities of citizen participation in a commune in southern Chile. The results indicate that the measures taken by Health institutions are strongly influenced by conflicts of interest, boosting civic-type actions to benefit supervised institutional needs and therefore, no influence the communal territorial development. This provides a space for reflection on the role that fits the development of health care management in Primary Health Care.