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0432/2016 - Municipalities and expenditures own health in brazil: Some associations
Os municípios brasileiros e os gastos próprios com saúde: Algumas associações.

Author:

• Carmem Emmanuely Leitão Araújo - ARAÚJO, CEL. - belo horizonte, MG - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS, DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIA POLÍTICA - <carmemleitao@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• José Angelo Machado - Machado, José Angelo - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Ciência Política - <joseangelo@fafich.ufmg.br>
• Guilherme Quaresma Gonçalves - Gonçalves, Guilherme Quaresma - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS, Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas - <gui.quaresma89@gmail.com>

Thematic Area:

Políticas em Saúde

Abstract:

In a context that combines decentralization and underfunding of public health policy, the municipalities extend expressively their spending in this sector, allocating a proportion of their own revenues (direct taxation added to the mandatory intergovernmental transfersthe Union and the states) at levels above the ones that are constitutionally determined. However, there are just incipient studies investigating the composition of expenditure on health in these federative units, in order to describe its main characteristics and explanations. In order to contribute to the elimination of this gap, this article explores some associations between attributes of the municipalities (population size, region of the country, the proportion of elderly, child mortality, hiring private services and SUS transfer) and health expenditure implemented with the municipalities’ own recipes. The study used descriptive statistics and multiple linear regressions in order to investigate such associations with data for 2010. The results point to tax inequities in the sector when comparing municipalities of different population groups and socioeconomic conditions, including, the perception of important differences in terms of per capita spending on the expenditure items analyzed.

Keywords:

Public Health PolicyDecentralizationHealth ExpendituresLocal Government

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ARAÚJO, CEL., Machado, José Angelo, Gonçalves, Guilherme Quaresma. Municipalities and expenditures own health in brazil: Some associations. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/Sep). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/municipalities-and-expenditures-own-health-in-brazil-some-associations/15858?id=15858



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