This paper presents the challenges for the implementation of the intergovernmental transferring criteria established in Complementary Law 141, of January 2012, which regulates Constitutional Amendment No. 29, of 2000, for the Unified Health System (SUS). The Law establishes norms for a resource...

This article provides an analysis of policies adopted to ensure adequate funding to public health care in Brazil as determined by the 1988 Federal Constitution. Issues related to the tripartite funding of the SUS, the decentralization of federal financial resources to subnational levels of...

This work is a compilation of studies produced at the Social Studies Department - Disoc/Ipea to support the elaboration of the document "Brazil: the state of the Union - 2007". Health outcomes in the last decades, health policies after 1988 and the role of the government in health care are...

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...

The stabilization of public health financing has been one of the main concerns of various areas of society and of the state. This article contributes to this discussion from a specific context: to evaluate the behavior of the resource funds and expenses of the Ministry of Health. The composition...

The Unified Health System (SUS) financing is a recurrent theme in the sectoral debate. After 28 years since the Federal Constitution promulgation, its failure remains identified as a major structural problem for the public healthcare system consolidation. In the federal government, the spending...