The paper investigates de relationship between employment rate and mortality rate in Brazil during the period 1981 …-2002. It briefly reviews the literature on macroeconomic conditions and health, emphasizing the existence of two controversial … hypothesis. The Ruhm's Hypothesis suggest that high unemployment rates associated with lower mortality and vice versa stands in …

expression. This study aimed to estimate corrected female mortality rates due to assault and to describe the profile of these … deaths in Brazil, in its macro-regions and Federative Units (UF) in the period 2011-2013. Data from the Mortality Information … System (SIM), of the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Brazilian Ministry of Health (SVS/MS) were used. In Brazil, in the …

expression. This study aimed to estimate corrected female mortality rates due to assault and to describe the profile of these … deaths in Brazil, in its macro-regions and Federative Units (UF) in the period 2011-2013. Data from the Mortality Information … System (SIM), of the Secretariat of Health Surveillance, Brazilian Ministry of Health (SVS/MS) were used. In Brazil, in the …

This work follows the series of studies conducted in Ipea, in order to compare the efficiency of the Brazilian health … system to health systems of other countries. We evaluate the efficiency of expenditure in health care provision by comparing … the health system of Brazil, Latina America, Caribbean Countries and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …

There are several studies showing that household income seems to be an important determinant of children`s health. The … objective of this paper is to document the relationship between income and children`s health in Brazil using three data sources … and many health indicators. The empirical analysis is conducted with information from the 2002/2003 POF (Consumer …

We evaluate the efficiency of expenditure in health care provision by comparing various output measures (life … expectancy; infant survival rate; years of life recovered from diseases; population; area) from the health system of Brazilian …, Latina America and Caribbean Countries with an expenditure measure (health expenditure per capita). When estimating the …

geographical areas of disease concentration and poor socioeconomic conditions for directing integrated public health and social … units of analysis. We used data from the information systems of the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Brazilian Institute … of Geography and Statistics to calculate incidence indicators of the following infectious diseases of poverty, according …