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 …

health innovation system. Statistics of patents and scientific papers are used in the investigation of this conjecture. The … international position of Brazil in regard to the health innovation system is identified. The disconnection between the scientific … the high percentage of health-related non-resident patents seem to be associated with the disconnection conjectured …

, criminality rate, and health status. In Brazil, such issues are particularly relevant, since it possesses one of the worst income … distributions in the world, whose Gini coefficient is around 0.607. This paper aims at studying the relationship between health … distribution may affect health status, since more unequal societies are characterized by the existence of social conflicts and …

of the document Brazil: the state of the Union - 2007. Health outcomes in the last decades, health policies after 1988 … and the role of the government in health care are analyzed. Regarding this last topic, problems related to financing …, sector regulation and services production by the Unified Health System are discussed. The study shows that, despite …

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 …

This article provides an analysis of policies adopted to ensure adequate funding to public health care in Brazil as …/2000 are discussed. The CA 29/2000 led to an increase in financial resources to fund health care provided by the SUS from 2 … what should not be considered health care provided by the SUS. Unfortunately, no change has been proposed regarding the …

Technology management is currently a major challenge to health systems. Scientific and technological development in … incorporation of drugs in the Unified Health System (SUS). It was taking into account the principles that guide the therapeutic … assistance offered through the system, its current process of health technology assessment and the budgetary constraint imposed …

) and the health innovation system. The panel data and simultaneous equations models analyze the interactions between C …

of this paper is to study the relationship between health status, income distribution and the level of poverty in Brazil …. Specifically, we are interested in evaluate how health status impacts income distribution and the level of poverty. The methodology … analyse health effects over income distribution and the level of poverty we used two inequality indexes (Gini coefficient and …