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, Latina America and Caribbean Countries with an expenditure...

According to Brazilian Law, access to organ transplantation in Brazil should be equitable for all and not be influenced by race, geography, religion, or economic status. But we show that non-Whites and women are underrepresented among organ transplantation recipients, although they are no longer...

O presente texto trata do perfil dos transplantados e do problema das desigualdades no acesso aos transplantes de órgãos no Sistema Nacional de Transplantes (SNT) do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). A equidade nos procedimentos relacionados com transplantes de órgãos no Brasil recebe...

This work studies the waiting times for the chapter XV of the ICD-10 (pregnancy,childbirth and puerperal care) in the years of 1999 and 2002 within the BrazilianNational Health System (SUS). The average waiting times were estimated byqueueing theory models. We used multilevel regression models...

The Brazilian National Transplantation System (SNT) faces great challenges since the mean waiting times are very long, the shortage of organs is acute and a growing backlog of patients has been observed. We use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to realize an exploratory evaluation of the...