The allocation of federal resources through parliamentary amendments (PA) to the Unified Health System (SUS) has been growing since the budget execution of these resources became mandatory, contributing to the reduction of the share of resources allocated to public health actions and services...

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, governments mobilized scientists to help them design, implement and evaluate policies. These scientists analysed the available scientific evidence and worked to incorporate it into policies, being in this way an essential interface between governments and...

The focus of this reflection is on how the Brazilian Public Prosecutor, entitled to guaranteeing social and collective rights, can ensure the effectiveness of mental health policies. It also seeks to evaluate to which extent the organization's strategies may offset the risks of retraction,...

In Brazil, the right to health has achieved relevance in policy debate, especially in the last two decades, due to the increase in the number of lawsuits lawsuits against the executive branch to ensure access to medicines, exams, hospitalizations, among other goods and health services. The...

Precision medicine or personalized medicine refers to the customization of medical treatment based on the ability to classify individuals into subpopulations that differ in susceptibility to a particular disease or in response to a specific treatment. This new perception about diagnosis and...

This text has as main objective to calculate the users' co-payment values in the Brazilian Farmácia Popular program (PFPB), as well as to explore potential factors associated with the co-payment rate in the program. The study is based on a rich set of data relating to product sales by...

The article is based on qualitative research carried out by the authors at the seven Psychosocial Care Centers for Alcohol and other Drugs (CAPS AD) in the Federal District, in order to observe the implementation of the Ministry of Health Policy for Comprehensive Care for Users of Alcohol and...

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...