Brazil has one of the most extensive public program for organ transplantation in the world, and the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) provides full coverage procedures related to organ donation, transplants, and post-transplant. Despite the relevance of the subject and the existence of long...

This text presents a brief discussion on the ways in which racism spreads in Brazil, and on the reasons that make racial discrimination an extremely serious problem with implications for health, the economy, general well-being and democracy in our country. Recently, literature has treated racism...

This paper aims at assessing the health care services in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro's municipalities. The evaluation is performed through the combination of non stochastics efficiency frontiers with regression models encompassing municipalities resources and outputs. The optimal...

This paper studies the performance of 45 Brazilian federal teaching hospitals, within five semesters as from 1998 by connecting and assessing technical efficiency scores and service indicators. The efficiency scores are obtained from a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model. The service...

Performance Indicators (PI) has been frequently used as tools for hospitals performance evaluation in Brazil. The presente work evaluates four public and two private hospitals using that approach and a frontier methodology referred in the literature as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA was...

Brazil has one of the most extensive public program for organ transplantation in the world, and the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) provides full coverage procedures related to organ donation, transplants, and post-transplant. Despite the relevance of the subject and the existence of long...

This paper tries do motivate the discussion of evaluation problems in the context of social programs. Initially, the text explores the point of view that social programs should be recognized as complex organizations. In the case, there are multiple objectives, decentralization, and coordination...

Performance Indicators (PI) has been frequently used as tools for hospitals performance evaluation in Brazil. The presente work evaluates four public and two private hospitals using that approach and a frontier methodology referred in the literature as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA was...