The objective is to analyze problems of the health sector in Brazil, with emphasis on the management of the SUS, aiming at the elaboration of concrete interventions proposals to ensure the population's access to universal, egalitarian and comprehensive healthcare. The methodological framework of...

This text analyzes issues related to the federative coordination of the Unified Health System (SUS), with negative repercussions on access to public health goods and services, aiming at the identification and recommendation of measures that contribute to the gradual solution of access...

This text continues previous studies, carried out at Ipea, which analyze the spending of the three levels of government in financing the Unified Health System (SUS). Taking the period from 2010 to 2022 as a basis, the study analyzes the behavior of spending on health actions and services (ASPS)...

Health economics (HE) is a relatively new field of knowledge, whose structuring began in the early 1960s, although studies on the intersection between economics and health date back to earlier periods. Considering the contributions of this field to the improvement of the Brazilian health system...

The recent health crisis installed around the world because of the covid-19 pandemic has once again brought the debate on issues related to the development, production, and access to health technologies to the center of the government agenda. In Brazil, it exposed the national vulnerability due...

In Brazil, the debate on the role of parliamentary amendments (PAs) in federal funding for the Unified Health System (SUS) has gained prominence in recent years due to the increase in allocated amounts and the potential consequences for public access to health services, given the system's...

The objective of this text is to present a set of indicators that make it possible not only to measure the contribution of the Unified Health System (SUS) to the promotion, protection, and recovery of the Brazilians health, in terms of the benefits offered, but also to monitor the offer of these...

The study aims to contribute to the debate on social welfare in Brazil through an analysis focused on the normative action of the State on the subject from October 1988 until September 2022. October 1988 marks the date when a new, democratic constitution was enacted, which defined social...

Ensuring sufficient resources for the Unified Health System (SUS) has been a concern since its inception. The linking of resources from the Social Security Budget (OSS) provided for in the Transitional Provisions Act (ADCT) of the Federal Constitution of 1988 was not complied with, nor were the...

We explore variations in the values paid for Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS) hospitalizations financed by the federal government according to procedures recorded in the SUS Hospital Information System (SIH) for the year 2019. We detail billing components (main procedures,...