Background: Among patients presenting with atypical acute chest pain with 30 to 70 years of age, 30 to 72% of the may have coronary arteries disease, CAD. CAD is the fifth Brazilian public health assistance most frequent motive and causes 20% mortality. When clinical information is unable to...

This work shows some aspects of the relation between for-profits and nonprofits hospitals in the realm of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS). We emphasize the for-profit and not-for-profit orientations of the hospitals rather than focusing on the usual private versus public dichotomy. By...

Given the growing increase in revenue from oil royalties, Law 12858/2013 was enacted, which allocates 75% of this revenue to education and 25% to health. The Propensity Score Matching (PSM) combined with the Difference in Difference (DD) method is used to evaluate this policy in what regards...

This paper aims to analyze the interfaces between Brazilian Competition Law and the issue of access to medicines, with a special focus on abuse of industrial property rights and related exclusionary and exploitative effects. The paper analyzes the case law of Brazilian Administrative Council for...