O papel da mídia na construção da agenda governamental para o SUS no Rio de Janeiro.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the role of mass media in creating health governmental agenda in the state of Rio de Janeiro. We collected news published on the subject in the three most circulated newspapers in that state from 2003 till 2011. We gathered 3.305 news and subsequently we grouped them into eight categories. The analysis of data shows that the media was the main actor in the process of changing the management model of the health units by framing the theme so that to favour a negative view on the provision of services directly by the public administration. This allowed the formation of a public opinion favorable to the project of implantation of OS - organizações sociais (social organizations, a specific kind of private association) presented by the governor Sérgio Cabral and his secretary of health, Sérgio Côrtes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]