Municipal Primary Health Care Spending in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2011-2013

2011 to 2013 mean spending data for 496 municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, exploring associations between federal budget transfers, sociodemographic factors, and epidemiological profiles. The dataset was created by Fabiana da Silva Cabreira for an ecological study using multiple linear regression. Mean spending on primary health care was BRL 81.20 per inhabitant-year, with variability explained by components like the fixed and variable Minimum Basic Care (PAB).

Use Cases

• Modeling municipal healthcare spending based on federal transfer components like the fixed and variable PAB.
• Analyzing the association between spending and sociodemographic factors such as population density and income.
• Investigating the relationship between healthcare spending and epidemiological profiles, including disease rates.
• Evaluating the impact of healthcare structure and performance metrics, like the rate of family health teams, on per capita expenditure.

Strengths

• Covers 496 municipalities, providing a substantial geographic scope within Rio Grande do Sul State.
• Includes specific financial metrics, such as a mean spending of BRL 81.20 per inhabitant-year with a standard deviation of ±35.50.
• Model results are quantified, with R-squared values provided for different variable blocks (e.g., 0.82 for the variable PAB block).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Data from the Management Report of the Strategic Management Support Room in Brazil.

Collection Method

Ecological study using multiple linear regression on aggregated municipal data.

Time Range

2011-2013

Geography

Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil (496 municipalities)