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 …

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 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 medication. These programmes exert strong pressure on the public health …