Uma avaliação comparativa da eficiência dos gastos públicos com saúde nos municípios brasileiros / A comparison of the efficiency of public spending with health in municipalities

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The aim of this work is to compare the efficiency of the public expenses with health among Brazilian municipalities, i.e. analyze which municipality better applied the financial resources on this sector. In order to achieve this goal, each municipalitys total public budget for this sector was compared to the local health quality of population taken into account variables that may affect populations health, such as: education; public utilities; average income; etc. Firstly, the general quality of health for the municipalities was defined and characterized, secondly a Production Possibility Frontier was built, using the method of Stochastic Frontier, where the municipalities inefficiency is compared through the distance of each of them to the frontier. The influence of some factors were tested, as they may explain the difference in performance among the municipalities. The main factors are: intensiveness of capital usage, which showed negative correlation with inefficiency; coverage of the public policies Saúde da Família and Agentes Comunitários da Saúde, which did not present evidences of raising the efficiency; private sector partnerships; among others. The database used was the Sistema de Informações Financeiras (SIAFI), collected from the National Treasury of Brazil, covering the period from 1997 to 2000. The populations data used was from the National Census of 2000. The final sample contains 3370 municipalities, which correspond to 60% out of the Brazilian total municipalities.

ASSUNTO(S)

gastos em saúde efficiency econometrics economia da saúde spent on health econometria health economics eficiência

ACESSO AO ARTIGO

Documentos Relacionados