The Brazilian Unified National Health System: Proposal of a Cost-effectiveness Evaluation Model



Título del documento: The Brazilian Unified National Health System: Proposal of a Cost-effectiveness Evaluation Model
Revista: BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
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Número de sistema: 000552940
ISSN: 1807-7692
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Faculdade de Economia Administracao e Contabilidade, Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo. Brasil
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Volumen: 13
Número: 2
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Resumen en inglés The Brazilian Unified National Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde SUS) is in a prominent position compared to the existing social policies. One of the new tools used by SUS is known as Performance Index of the Unified Health System (Índice de Desempenho do Sistema Único de Saúde IDSUS), which is intended to measure the performance of each municipality. Therefore, the aim of this study was to propose a model of cost-effectiveness to compare IDSUS performance against total revenues achieved in Homogeneous Group 2, consisting of 94 municipalities and analysed using data from IDSUS and the System Information of the Public Budget for Health Care (Sistema de Informação do Orçamento Público em Saúde SIOPS) for the year 2011. After structuring this data, we carried out descriptive statistical and cluster analysis in order to group similar municipalities in accordance with established variables: IDSUS performance, population and total revenue in health per capita. Even with the division of municipalities into homogeneous groups and after using variables such as population and revenue to regroup them, the results showed there are municipalities with heterogeneous characteristics. Another finding is in the use and intersection of two distinct databases (IDSUS and SIOPS), which allowed for visualizing the impact of health care revenue on the municipalities performance.
Disciplinas: Administración y contaduría
Palabras clave: Administración de instituciones
Keyword: Health policies,
SUS,
Cost-effectiveness,
IDSUS,
Management of institutions
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