This article provides an analysis of policies adopted to ensure adequate funding to public health care in Brazil as determined by the 1988 Federal Constitution. Issues related to the tripartite funding of the SUS, the decentralization of federal financial resources to subnational levels of...

Este trabalho analisa como o país tem enfrentado o desafio de prover um financiamento público adequado para a garantia do direito à saúde prevista na Constituição Federal de 1988 (CF/1988). Discute questões relacionadas ao processo de financiamento compartilhado do Sistema Único de...

This text aims at investigating the effects of unifying the constitutional minimum levels for healthcare and education expenditures, especially in municipalities. It provides a contribution to the public debate on a series of legislative initiatives, such as the Constitutional Amendment...

Brazil is a federation composed by the Federal Government, twenty-six states and the Federal District and 5,570 municipalities. The organization of the national health system is a shared responsibility of this three spheres of government and must comply to the constitutional principles of...

Ensuring sufficient resources for the Unified Health System (SUS) has been a concern since its inception. The linking of resources from the Social Security Budget (OSS) provided for in the Transitional Provisions Act (ADCT) of the Federal Constitution of 1988 was not complied with, nor were the...

The objective is to analyze problems of the health sector in Brazil, with emphasis on the management of the SUS, aiming at the elaboration of concrete interventions proposals to ensure the population's access to universal, egalitarian and comprehensive healthcare. The methodological framework of...

This text analyzes issues related to the federative coordination of the Unified Health System (SUS), with negative repercussions on access to public health goods and services, aiming at the identification and recommendation of measures that contribute to the gradual solution of access...

The Unified Health System (SUS) financing is a recurrent theme in the sectoral debate. After 28 years since the Federal Constitution promulgation, its failure remains identified as a major structural problem for the public healthcare system consolidation. In the federal government, the spending...

This text presents a consolidation of Brazilian public health spending (ASPS) of the three spheres of government in the period 2003 to 2017. The main objective, besides analyzing the evolution of expenditure since the approval of the Constitutional Amendment 29 in 2000 (CA 29), is to demonstrate...

The purpose of this text is to analyze the weight and the allocation of resources through parliamentary amendments in the federal budget to finance expenditures with public health services (ações e serviços públicos de saúde - ASPS) from 2015 to 2018. An exploratory and descriptive study of...