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productivity have increased from 2009 to 2018. These increments allowed Brazil to be a major player in meat production and exports … during the period, which is strongly related to cost advantages over other countries. China has increased its meat imports … strategies to promote Brazilian meat and open new markets in order to diversify the consumers and reduce the exports dependence …
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productivity have increased from 2009 to 2018. These increments allowed Brazil to be a major player in meat production and exports … during the period, which is strongly related to cost advantages over other countries. China has increased its meat imports … strategies to promote Brazilian meat and open new markets in order to diversify the consumers and reduce the exports dependence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019109
This paper presents the challenges for the implementation of the intergovernmental transferring criteria established in Complementary Law 141, of January 2012, which regulates Constitutional Amendment No. 29, of 2000, for the Unified Health System (SUS). The Law establishes norms for a resource...
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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...
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Brazil is a federation composed by the Federal Government, twenty-six states and the Federal District and 5,570 municipalities. The organization of the national health system is a shared responsibility of this three spheres of government and must comply to the constitutional principles of...
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Based on the principles of universality and equality and the guideline of integrality, the Brazilian Public Healthcare System, called Unified Health System (SUS), was constituted as a regionalized and hierarchical services network. There is the recognizing of interdependence between...
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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...
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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 and OECD countries with an expenditure measure (health...
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Different conceptions about distribution criteria in health services are discussed based on the notion of fairness, and in the assumption that health requirements are simultaneously social security needs. Issues of equity and limits in distribution of health services are highlighted as they are...
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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...
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