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Social Participation in Health: The Brazilian National Health Council’s contributions to the World Health Organization resolution

This publication records a unique moment in the history of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and global public health: the approval, in May 2024, of the Resolution on Social participation for universal health coverage, health and well-beingat the 77th World Health Assembly. More than three decades after the institutionalization of social participation in the SUS, the brazilian experience has become a reference in a world seeking new paradigms of cooperation, governance, and health democracy. For the first time in the 76 years of the  orld
Health Organization (WHO), social participation was explicitly recognized as a structuring element of public health policies.

Brazil’s National Health Council (CNS) collaborated intensively with the Brazilian negotiators led by diplomacy (MRE and UN Mission in Geneva) and the international branch of the
Ministry of Health (AISA). The country debated the issue in the Executive Table and in its Plenary, sent written suggestions, followed the debates and the vote during the Assembly through a qualified delegation of civil society Presentation from the SUS social office group.

The objectives are quite general and are mainly focused on producing support materials to help tackle the challenges outlined above and, in particular, to spread knowledge of the
Resolution in Brazil. This publication brings together short articles signed by participants in the process of drafting the Resolution, covering its conceptual aspects; elements of the
process of drafting and deliberating the Resolution; the contribution of the CNS and Brazilian civil society organizations to the Resolution process; and the challenges of implementing
the Resolution. This publication also contains the text of the Resolution in its original English version, published by the WHO.

A call for contributions was opened and here are the contributions received. However, these do not exhaust the wealth of the process carried out and the content of the Resolution. They are presented as support material for continuing to reinforce social participation and social control in the fight for the human right to health in Brazil, the Americas and the world.