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 …

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

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

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 expenditure per capita). When estimating the efficiency frontier …