This text aims to offer three contributions to the study of Brazilian public expenditures on health and education. First by constructing annual and bimonthly estimates of these expenditures in order to allow time series analyses of their historical evolution. Second by analysing the relative...

The paper assess the effect of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer Program, Bolsa Familia (BF), on school attendance among adolescent mothers relative to adolescent non-mothers, combining quantitative and qualitative technics. The quantitative analysis was based on the 2010 Census, and was...

This text aims to analyze the expenditures on litigated pharmaceuticals by the municipalities and states participating in the Unified Health System (SUS)' Pharmaceutical Service Research and to discuss the process of health judicialization in this system. Issues related to pharmaceuticals...

Pharmaceuticals are essential technologies in healthcare and represent a considerable portion of healthcare expenditures in countries worldwide. The budgetary perspective of pharmaceutical spending is essential for analyzing the weight of these expenses in relation to the resources allocated for...

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...

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...