Maria Alicia Dominguez Ugá

O mix público-privado no Sistema de Saúde Brasileiro: financiamento, oferta e utilização de serviços de saúde

This paper analyzes the public-private mix in the Brazilian Health System from the perspective of health care delivery, utilization and financing. Moreover, this quantitative study based on secondary data from official databases contemplates the subsidies granted by the government to the private sector. It shows the existence of some inequalities favoring the population having private health plans, a result of the peculiar participation of the private sector in the Brazilian Health System not only offering supplementary care but duplicating the coverage offered by the public system (called SUS). The analysis is made on the basis of the classification of public-private mix in Health Systems developed by the OECD in 2004, that helps understanding the kinds of inequalities occurring in each type of public-private mix. The inequalities that occur in the Brazilian system must be understood as the result of the duplicated coverage offered by the private market and of the weak public funding for the SUS while granting important subsidies to the private sector.

Emergency care costs for victims of violence treated at two hospitals in Rio de Janeiro

The following is a cost analysis of one month of emergency room treatment provided for different types of injuries at two public hospitals in Rio de Janeiro. The study focused on the following: 1) costs at each hospital for treatment of different injuries (annual and monthly estimates); 2) mean cost of each injury; 3) detailed itemized costs of care (materials and drugs, surgery, standard procedures, tests, professional fees, and meals). The items were investigated at the respective hospitals and included services, materials, and resources employed in treating the 1,053 patients included in the sample (498 in the Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital - MCMH - and 555 in the Salgado Filho Municipal Hospital - SFMH). Traffic accidents (run-over pedestrians, motor vehicle collisions, and transportation accidents) accounted for 74.3% of costs at MCMH and 48.4% at SFMH. Injuries due to aggression were also considered relevant in the cost profile, mainly at SFMH (49% of costs due to violence) as compared to 24.9% of the total care costs at MCMH. Mean treatment costs for pedestrians run over by motor vehicles varied from R

Descentralização e alocação de recursos no âmbito do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)

77.76 (SFMH) to R

Conflitos e impasses da judicialização na obtenção de medicamentos: as decisões de 1ª instância nas ações individuais contra o Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, em 2005

237.77 (MCMH). Mean treatment costs for victims of aggression varied from R

Avaliação de Desempenho de Sistemas de Saúde: um modelo de análise

107.35 (SFMH) to R

A utilização de serviços de saúde por sistema de financiamento

84.19 (MCMH). The study suggests public health measures to deal with and prevent violence.

Os custos de doenças tabaco-relacionadas para o Sistema Único de Saúde

Este artigo trata da descentralizacao do SUS, particularmente no que se refere a distribuicao e ao processo de alocacao de recursos para a saude, nas tres esferas de governo. Assim, apresenta, por um lado, o marco constitucional e legal desse processo e analisa as Normas Operacionais que vem orientando o processo de descentralizacao no SUS. Por outro lado, aborda a regionalizacao da alocacao de recursos efetivamente executada pelo Ministerio da Saude, incluindo tanto os gastos diretos como os repasses para estados e municipios. Finalmente, sao feitas algumas consideracoes de ordem geral.

Uma analise da utilização de serviços de saúde por sistema de financiamento: Brasil 1998 -2008

Based on an analysis of individual claims for provision of medicines brought by users of the Unified National Health System (SUS) against the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the year 2005, this study aims to discuss the action and behavior of the court system in ruling on these suits. The study adopted a semi-qualitative exploratory documental research design, analyzing key aspects related to the claims, such as type of medication claimed by the plaintiff, wording of the court rulings, and the key elements used by judges in trying the cases. According to the analysis of the lawsuits and the concepts of judicialization and official standardization of medicines, the study concludes that when ruling on the provision of medicines, the court system grants the claims as submitted without considering the standardization of medicines adopted by the Ministry of Health, thus exercising excessive court intervention in health policy.Based on an analysis of individual claims for provision of medicines brought by users of the Unified National Health System (SUS) against the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the year 2005, this study aims to discuss the action and behavior of the court system in ruling on these suits. The study adopted a semi-qualitative exploratory documental research design, analyzing key aspects related to the claims, such as type of medication claimed by the plaintiff, wording of the court rulings, and the key elements used by judges in trying the cases. According to the analysis of the lawsuits and the concepts of judicialization and official standardization of medicines, the study concludes that when ruling on the provision of medicines, the court system grants the claims as submitted without considering the standardization of medicines adopted by the Ministry of Health, thus exercising excessive court intervention in health policy.

Caracterização gerencial dos hospitais filantrópicos no Brasil

This paper presents a review of the Dimension Matrix for Evaluation of the Brazilian Health System that was initially developed in 2003, as well as a conceptual update of some of the sub-dimensions for the evaluation of health service performance, namely effectiveness, access, efficiency and appropriateness of health care. It also describes the indicator selection process as well as the results obtained in each performance dimension. The behavior of the indicators used to assess the performance of health services in Brazil, with respect to each sub-dimension, was not uniform. Areas of marked improvement were found in indicators that are influenced by activities in the field of primary care. The most significant improvements were seen in the sub-dimensions of Effectiveness and Access. With respect to the Efficiency of health services, situations of high efficiency coexist with others with substandard performance. The performance of health services in the sub-dimension of Appropriateness of Health Care was the lowest of all indicators.

Uma análise da progressividade do financiamento do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)

This article analyses, from micro-data of the National Sample Household Survey (PNAD/IBGE) from 1998 and 2003, the utilisation of health services according to different financing systems. In other words, it analyses if this utilisation has been done through the National Health System SUS (public and universal health insurance, financed by taxes), through private health insurance (premiums paid by the insured population and/or their employers) or through out-of-pocket payments. The main results are: 1) SUS finances most of inpatient and outpatient utilisation and its participation has strongly increased from 1998 to 2003; 2) although the absolute number of outpatient utilisation made through the three systems has increased, SUS expansion has been much stronger (it increased 44%) and it corresponded to a slower increase (6,2%) of out-of-pocket utilisation and 3) SUS is the main financing system of the two extremes of complexity of health care: primary care and high complexity services.