 Universalizing Health Care in Brazil: Opportunities and ChallengesAna Luiza d’Ávila Viana, Hudson Pacífico Silva and Ilcheong Yi Chapter 7 in Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies, 2017, pp 181-211 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract This chapter explains the development of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) within a hybrid development policy regime of neoliberal and new developmentalist policies. Focusing on three key dimensions for the development of health care in the Brazilian federative context— namely the regionalization of health care, stable and sufficient financing and public–private partnership—the chapter highlights the opportunities and challenges in moving towards universal health coverage in a context of great regional inequality, chronic underfunding and complicated relations between the public and private sectors. It argues that the creation and development of the SUS was a key driver towards the universalization of health coverage, and opened a window of opportunity to create a virtuous complementarity between health care expansion and other policies for overall development. Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Federal Government; Health Spending; Universal Health Coverage; Total Health Expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-1-137-53377-7_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53377-7_7 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Social Policy in a Development Context from Palgrave Macmillan |
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