The population's access to public health services contribute to reducing disease prevalence and raising life expectancy. In Brazil, the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) is guided by the principles of universality and integrality of care to all health needs. Despite the advances of the SUS, it...

According to Brazilian Law, access to organ transplantation in Brazil should be equitable for all and not be influenced by race, geography, religion, or economic status. But we show that non-Whites and women are underrepresented among organ transplantation recipients, although they are no longer...

Brazilian Welfare Policy, in its basic protection dimension, is implemented by public structures called as Referencial Centers of Social Assistence (Cras), which work at the local level (municipalities), but are organized, coordinated, legislated and co-financed by the federal government. This...

This paper aims to analyze the effects of individual socioeconomic characteristics on the mortality risk of Covid-19. Two datasets were combined to achieve this objective: the individual health records from people infected with coronavirus in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, and the...

The objective of the text is to analyse whether access to rights guaranteed by the Bill of Elderly occurs differently between the black and non-black population and between men and women. The first right established is the right to life which is violated by various causes, some is possible to be...

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...

Using data from the 2017-2018 Household Budget Survey, the work investigates the demographic, geographic and socioeconomic determinants of Brazilian families' expenditure on acquiring health insurance plans for their members. A distinctive characteristic of the data is that most Brazilian...

The general objective of this study is to analyze the prevalence of food and nutritional insecurity (FNI) in the Brazilian population, differentiating its incidence between urban and rural environments. To this end, a multinomial logit model was used with data from the Continuous National...

This study describes China's tax system and the applied tax policies against the covid-19 crisis, which were the Value Added Tax (VAT) deferral and Corporate Income Tax (CIT) deductions. China has a tax system following international standards, having a unified and decentralized tax agency. The...