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...

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 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...