One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education opportunities as well as cultural and leisure activities. Nonetheless, transport research and policies in Brazil are still largely focused on the challenges of reducing road...

One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education opportunities as well as cultural and leisure activities. Nonetheless, transport research and policies in Brazil are still largely focused on the challenges of reducing road...

Precision medicine or personalized medicine refers to the customization of medical treatment based on the ability to classify individuals into subpopulations that differ in susceptibility to a particular disease or in response to a specific treatment. This new perception about diagnosis and...

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...

Public transport policies play a key role in shaping the ease with each people from different social groups and income levels can access job opportunities, health services and education. Thus, these policies have important implications for the promotion of more just and inclusive cities. This...

Public transport policies play a key role in shaping the ease with each people from different social groups and income levels can access job opportunities, health services and education. Thus, these policies have important implications for the promotion of more just and inclusive cities. This...

Precision medicine or personalized medicine refers to the customization of medical treatment based on the ability to classify individuals into subpopulations that differ in susceptibility to a particular disease or in response to a specific treatment. This new perception about diagnosis and...

This text presents a consolidation of Brazilian public health spending (ASPS) of the three spheres of government in the period 2003 to 2017. The main objective, besides analyzing the evolution of expenditure since the approval of the Constitutional Amendment 29 in 2000 (CA 29), is to demonstrate...

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...

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,...