Brief History of David Capistrano Successful Experiences in the Health Area Award

Abstract

Established during the XXII Congress of Municipal Health Secretaries of the State of São Paulo and VIII
Exhibition of Successful Experiences of the Municipalities, held in the city of Bauru, in March 2008,
the “David Capistrano Award for Successful Experiences in the Health Area” it was part of the celebrations
of the twentieth anniversary of SUS and the Council of Municipal Health Secretaries of the State of São Paulo
(COSEMS / SP). In addition to commemorating the twenty years of COSEMS / SP and SUS, the Award symbolized the
recognition of the merit and initiative of countless secretaries, secretaries, health workers and workers
who daily in their municipalities developed innovative experiences in the management and / or assistance in SUS .
In that first edition of the Award, 440 papers participated, grouped in two axes: Organization of Comprehensive
Health Care and Health System Management.The quality and originality of the municipal experiences was
already known to all, since that was the eighth edition of the Exhibition. However, as until then there was
no concern to reward the experiences, there was only a global view of the good quality of the works on display.
This detail emerged in the process of evaluating and electing the ten works awarded the “David Capistrano Award”.
For this task, COSEMS / SP constituted a committee of 40 evaluators, all with extensive experience and
involvement with SUS, but who at that time had no municipal ties. This group of evaluators made, based on
previously defined and consensual criteria, a first evaluation of the works registered on the Mostra website,
indicating those that they considered deserving of the Award, a number that reached almost a quarter of the
works entered. It was a criterion for submitting works that they demonstrated to be practices that would effect
SUS guiding principles such as comprehensiveness, universality, equity with the guarantee of participation and
social control. The more than one hundred works nominated for awards went through a second evaluation, made by
the same evaluators, now visiting the Exhibition and the Posters presented. This visit resulted in the
nomination of the ten municipal experiences that received the “David Capistrano Award for Successful Experiences
of the Municipalities”.