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

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...

In Brazil, Law no 12.764/2012 recognized Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a disability for all legal purposes. This recognition, coupled with the significant increase in diagnoses, directly impacts the formulation and implementation of public policies. The growth of the population considered to...

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...

This text aims at exploring the literature about Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), concerning its theoretical and empirical development. One intends to identify its main issues in the domains of epistemology and ethics, as well as extracting some lessons from these issues to the Evidence-Based...

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments mobilized scientists to help them design, implement and evaluate policies. These scientists analysed the available scientific evidence and worked to incorporate it into policies, being in this way an essential interface between governments and...

This paper aims to analyze the effects of individual socioeconomic characteristics on the mortality risk of Covid-19. Two datasets were combined to achieve this objective: the individual health records from people infected with coronavirus in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, and the...