The health of both farmers and consumers of tobacco has attracted the attention of international organizations. The … protection of the environment and human health in the tobacco production process, since its cultivation brings serious risks to … the environment and the health of farmers. Tobacco has established itself as one of the main agricultural products grown …

Introduction: The aging of the Brazilian population brings out the question about rising health expenditures, which are … frequency and expenditure structure in health expenditures, for men and women in Northeast and Southeast Regions, in 1998 …

their costs and impacts on the health system. In addition, we also discuss challenges to its development and to how …

services, giving water and sewage services a status of the infrastructure and health sectors. Among the conclusions we point …

The population's access to public health services contribute to reducing disease prevalence and raising life expectancy … health needs. Despite the advances of the SUS, it faces permanent challenges in planning the coverage and equity of health … services to reduce, spatial, and income inequalities in access to health care. Several studies explore the spatial dimension of …

-qualification) and public services, such as schools (early childhood, primary and high school), health facilities (hospital and …

social security and the interrelation among social security, social assistance and health policies are analyzed, at first …

This paper aims to test the relationship between health and per capita economic growth. Two main causalities were … discussed: if health would directly increase labor productivity or if it would, indirectly, intensify the positive effect of … education on growth. A better health status could decrease the depreciation of human capital, proxied by education. We run two …