use administrative records of a healthcare insurance company that provide collective contracts to its employees. The …

In this paper we investigate the concentration in health insurance sector in Brazil. In order to conduct this analysis … point out that health insurance sector in Brazil is very concentrated. The most important firm is UNIMED that dominates the … criteria, once Brazil is specially large and heterogeneous country. We assume that health services are locally demanded and …

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 analyzed. Regarding this last topic, problems related to financing …, sector regulation and services production by the Unified Health System are discussed. The study shows that, despite …

for private health insurance are the focus of this study. It seems to be a contradiction between the redistribution model …This technical paper estimates the deductions on tax credits in Brazil for health care during 2003 and 2006. Subsidies … in the Constitution and the level of public spending on health care in Brazil. For this reason, one could argue that tax …

This paper investigates the existence of adverse selection in the brazilian health plan market. By using recent … assurance and economic efficiency when one imposes minimum coverage of benefits. …

private insurance is allowed to dispose supplemental health coverage. Nowadays, 25% of the whole population has private …The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of moral hazard in the Brazilian health system. The dataset used … is the 1998 PNAD (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra Domiciliar), a Brazilian household sample survey. Brazilian health system …

The goal of this paper is to analyze the spatial localization of health services supply at Brazilian north region. At … Amazon region, where distances among localities are huge and the transport system has deficiencies, the supply of health … point to an unevenly distributed urban network of health services, concentrated on region's most important cities as Manaus …