The purpose of this study is to analyse the determinants of life expectancy as proxy for health status of the OECD countries‘ population. A production function of health is used to explain life expectancy at birth for total and ageing population and according to gender. Socio-economic factors,...

Este artigo procurou traçar um perfil da sociedade brasileira em idade sexualmente ativa com respeito ao conhecimento adquirido sobre HIV/AIDS. Neste sentido procurou-se identificar como fatores socioeconômicos, demográficos, comportamentais e de localização, influenciam no nível de...

Este artigo avalia o impacto do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) sobre a segurança alimentar dos domicílios beneficiários e sobre indicadores da saúde de crianças de zero a seis anos: medidas antropométricas (altura/idade, peso/idade, peso/altura e índice de massa corporal) e mortalidade...

PeNSE 2012 is a survey conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in partnership with the Ministry of Health. PeNSE covers a broad range of subjects, especially risk behavior. This article has the aim of analyzing discrimination against obese and very thin students...

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 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 various output measures (life expectancy; infant...

A new and challenging scenario for drug analysis and registration has been gradually incorporated into the routine of the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitára - Anvisa) by the Brazilian pharmaceutical industry. This text calculates how long...