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...

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...

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 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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...