The objective of this text is to present and address the spending on medicines of the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS) from 2010 to 2016 in a budgetary perspective. The analysis was based on the budget execution of the Ministry of Health and the health departments of the states, the Federal...

The objective of this text is to discuss the relevance of the production and use of cost information from the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS), as an input for decision making processes on its financing and management. Technical-scientific literature on the subject is considered to present...

The objective of this text is to analyze the contribution of the main drivers of the direct expenditure of the Ministry of Health (MS) in medicines that are part of the list of Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs (PAP) from 2010 to 2019. Acquisitions data included in the information system called...

The allocation of federal resources through parliamentary amendments (PA) to the Unified Health System (SUS) has been growing since the budget execution of these resources became mandatory, contributing to the reduction of the share of resources allocated to public health actions and services...

The recent health crisis installed around the world because of the covid-19 pandemic has once again brought the debate on issues related to the development, production, and access to health technologies to the center of the government agenda. In Brazil, it exposed the national vulnerability due...

In Brazil, the debate on the role of parliamentary amendments (PAs) in federal funding for the Unified Health System (SUS) has gained prominence in recent years due to the increase in allocated amounts and the potential consequences for public access to health services, given the system's...

The purpose of this text is to analyze the weight and the allocation of resources through parliamentary amendments in the federal budget to finance expenditures with public health services (ações e serviços públicos de saúde - ASPS) from 2015 to 2018. An exploratory and descriptive study of...

This text continues previous studies, carried out at Ipea, which analyze the spending of the three levels of government in financing the Unified Health System (SUS). Taking the period from 2010 to 2022 as a basis, the study analyzes the behavior of spending on health actions and services (ASPS)...

Allocating sufficient resources to the Unified Health System (SUS) is a basic premise for compliance by the State with its duty to guarantee universal, equal and integral access to health goods and services in Brazil. As a way of ensuring minimal resources to the system, the compulsory...

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...