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The Brazilian national health system: an unfulfilled promise?

✍ Scribed by Carlos Octávio Ocké-Reis; Theodore R. Marmor

Book ID
102253630
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
91 KB
Volume
25
Category
Article
ISSN
0749-6753

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✦ Synopsis

In 1988, Brazil became one of the first countries in Latin America to frame access to health care as a constitutional right. However, it would be misleading to call Brazil's Unified Health System (Sistema U ´nico de Sau ´de, or SUS) a public health system that provides universal access and comprehensive care. This paper reveals a strong contradiction between the redistribution model set out in the Brazilian Constitution and the inadequate level of public spending on health care. The law states that health care is a basic social right, allocated by need rather than means. Meanwhile, in 2003, Brazil spent US$ 597 per capita on health, or 7.6 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP), while the average country from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

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