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    Spotlight on publications: methodologies of Latin American report cards on health

    2012
    In the last decades, citizen initiatives formed by academia, the private sector and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in various Latin American countries have emerged seeking greater participation in social oversight of their cities’ public policies.  The report card methodology is one of the tools these initiatives have used.
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    Deliberating democracy: scenes from a Brazilian municipal health council

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Brazil’s participatory policy councils may have gained less international attention than Participatory Budgeting. Yet the thousands of sectoral participatory policy councils that have come into being since the early 1990s, with their hundreds of thousands of civil society representatives, are as significant a democratic innovation.
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    Involving citizens in the building of Brazil’s health system

    ID21 Health News, 2008
    Brazil’s Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), a universal, rights-based national health system, uses innovative methods to involve ordinary citizens in shaping policy and holding the government accountable for delivery. This short article asks what lessons the SUS offers for future health systems.