Potencialities of ciberspaSUS: social networks as devices of public health policies in Brazil.

Objective: This paper examines two experiences of social networks developed as a space for strengthening public health policies in the Brazilian context. To describe and analyze some possibilities of using social networks as devices linked to public health policies based on the experience of two comparative cases currently underway in Brazil: The HumanizaSUS Network and the Community of Primary Care Practices.

Methods: This is qualitative research with a comparative case study approach, with emphasis on the exploitation of data available in the public platform of both networks and publications around these two experiences.

[Education and competences for the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS): is it possible to find alternatives to the logic of late capitalism?].

The transformations that have revolutionized the labor market in contemporary society make it necessary to think of new alternatives for training health care professionals, thereby establishing a new approach to the health problems of individuals and collectives. Based on these considerations, this paper sets out to discuss training in health--based on the concept of competence--with a focus on education for the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), using attempts to analyze and propose an alternative to the system entrenched in the logic of late capitalism as a theoretical benchmark. It is thus a reflection on the subject, correlating theory and praxis, in constant and relentless movement of construction, deconstruction and (re)construction of propositions.