This text aims at investigating the effects of unifying the constitutional minimum levels for healthcare and education expenditures, especially in municipalities. It provides a contribution to the public debate on a series of legislative initiatives, such as the Constitutional Amendment...

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 aims at investigating the effects of unifying the constitutional minimum levels for healthcare and education expenditures, especially in municipalities. It provides a contribution to the public debate on a series of legislative initiatives, such as the Constitutional Amendment...

Health economics (HE) is a relatively new field of knowledge, whose structuring began in the early 1960s, although studies on the intersection between economics and health date back to earlier periods. Considering the contributions of this field to the improvement of the Brazilian health system...

Health economics (HE) is a relatively new field of knowledge, whose structuring began in the early 1960s, although studies on the intersection between economics and health date back to earlier periods. Considering the contributions of this field to the improvement of the Brazilian health system...