Access to medicines in Brazil can be studied using different analytical approaches. One of these approaches is the household spending on medicines, whose weight over the income of the Brazilian families is widely known. The study aims to describe the spending on medicines of the Brazilian...

Health care, including access to medicines, is granted as a citizen's right by the Brazilian Constitution through a national health system called Unified Health System (SUS). The Pharmaceutical Care Programmes of SUS are, quite often, the only way a large part of the population has to obtain...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Medecins Sans Frontieres recently have proposed the term "neglected diseases", referring to those that have a higher occurrence in the developing countries and "most neglected", exclusive of developing countries. Leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, trachoma,...

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...

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...

We explore variations in the values paid for Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde - SUS) hospitalizations financed by the federal government according to procedures recorded in the SUS Hospital Information System (SIH) for the year 2019. We detail billing components (main procedures,...

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...