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0030/2020 - Regional inequalities and the role of federal funds in the sus: Political factors affect the allocation of resources?
Desigualdades regionais e o papel dos recursos federais no sus: Fatores políticos condicionam a alocação de recursos?

Author:

• Gregory dos Passos Carvalho - Carvalho, G.P - <gcarvalho.pol@gmail.com>
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3173-9732


Abstract:

The research problem in this paper is a discussion of political factors affecting the federal financial resources allocation in the Brazilian Unified Health System - SUS and their effects on regional inequalities. The main objective was to explore the influence of political factors as criteria for the distribution of federal funds, considering the regional inequalities. Mixed method was used by collecting quantitative data to study the allocation of resources for each unit of the Federation,2003 to 2017, in search of outliers, which require deeper explanations based on qualitative research methods. The method fuzzy-set QCA was applied in the step of qualitative research methods for identification of technical and political conditions, while necessaries and / or sufficients, for an atypical distribution of resourcesone year to another. The quantitative analysis demonstrated the decrease of regional inequalities in financial resources allocation to States of the North and Northeast. However, studying the constraints of the distribution of the federal funds for the States of these regions, the qualitative analysis demonstrated the influence of political factors conditioning the allocation of resources, and not only technical factors.

Keywords:

Political Factors; Resource Allocation; Political Science; Data Analysis; Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).

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Carvalho, G.P. Regional inequalities and the role of federal funds in the sus: Political factors affect the allocation of resources?. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2020/Feb). [Citado em 17/05/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/regional-inequalities-and-the-role-of-federal-funds-in-the-sus-political-factors-affect-the-allocation-of-resources/17512?id=17512



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