This essay explores the reduction of socioeconomic inequality observed during the economic growth in Brazil after 2004. Their results show a significant reduction of economic inequality in terms of current income of the families, explained by the creation of jobs, the income public policy and...

This essay explores the reduction of socioeconomic inequality observed during the economic growth in Brazil after 2004. Their results show a significant reduction of economic inequality in terms of current income of the families, explained by the creation of jobs, the income public policy and...

Access to medicines in Brazil can be studied using different analytical approaches. One of these approaches is the household spending on medicines, whose weight over the income of the Brazilian families is widely known. The study aims to describe the spending on medicines of the Brazilian...

Access to medicines in Brazil can be studied using different analytical approaches. One of these approaches is the household spending on medicines, whose weight over the income of the Brazilian families is widely known. The study aims to describe the spending on medicines of the Brazilian...

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...

The aim of this Discussion Paper was to estimate the attrition rate of rape in the health and police systems. From a joint analysis of the National Health Survey from Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística...

Este texto visa fazer uma comparação dos sistemas de cuidados continuados entre os países da União Europeia e descrever o perfil dos cuidadores informais. Desta forma, seguimos um percurso de análise que se inicia com uma perspetiva agregada dos sistemas de cuidados continuados e que...