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0098/2024 - Federal transfers to municipalities through parliamentary amendments: implications for SUS funding
Transferências federais por emendas parlamentares aos municípios: implicações para o financiamento do SUS

Author:

• André Schimidt da Silva - Silva, A. S. - <andre.schimidt@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7064-5731

Co-author(s):

• Luciana Dias de Lima - de Lima, L. D. - <luciana.dias@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0640-8387
• Tatiana Wargas de Faria Baptista - Baptista, T. W. de F. - <tatiana.baptista@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3445-2027
• Fabiola Sulpino Vieira - Vieira, F. S. - <fabiola.vieira@ipea.gov.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7377-7302


Abstract:

The article analyzes the transfersparliamentary amendments by the Ministry of Health to municipalities to finance public health actions and services2015 to 2021. A descriptive and exploratory study was carried out with secondary data covering all Brazilian cities. Resourcesamendments showed an increase, particularly2018 onwards, indicating the expansion of their relevance for financing the SUS. From 2016 to 2021, over 80% was allocated to municipalities, representing 9.5% of federal transfers, with 91.2% for operational expenses. Transfersamendments differregular transfers due to greater instability and per capita variation among the amounts collected by municipalities and because they allocate most resources to the Northeast and primary care, to the detriment of the Southeast and medium and high complexity. These transfers represent a differentiated modality of resource allocation in the SUS that produces new distortions and asymmetries, with implications for intergovernmental relations and between the executive and legislative powers, increasing the risk of discontinuity of actions and services and imposing challenges for municipal management.

Keywords:

Healthcare Financing, Allocation of Healthcare Resources, Financial Resources in Health, Public Expenditures on Health.

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Silva, A. S., de Lima, L. D., Baptista, T. W. de F., Vieira, F. S.. Federal transfers to municipalities through parliamentary amendments: implications for SUS funding. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/Apr). [Citado em 05/11/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/federal-transfers-to-municipalities-through-parliamentary-amendments-implications-for-sus-funding/19146?id=19146



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