Brazilian Federal District Primary Health Care Expenditure Analysis, 2005-2014

Primary Health Care expenditure data from Brazil's Federal District reveals a contradiction between policy discourse and spending patterns. The dataset, created by Helder Kiyoshi Kashiwakura, analyzes budget information from 2005 to 2014 to identify continuity and change in public health initiatives. It draws on data from the Public Budget Information System to examine the relationship between PHC funding and hospital service expenditures.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in Primary Health Care versus hospital service expenditures based on the described budget data.
• Evaluating the impact of health system reorganization initiatives mentioned in the description.
• Modeling path dependence in public health funding based on the historical neo-institutionalist analysis framework.
• Comparing health expenditure behavior over a decade as described in the study period.

Strengths

• Data covers a defined 10-year period from 2005 to 2014.
• Analysis is grounded in a specific theoretical framework (historical neo-institutionalism).
• Focuses on a specific geographic region, the Brazilian Federal District.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Public Budget Information System (Brazil)

Collection Method

Documental research focusing on public budget data.

Time Range

2005 to 2014

Geography

Federal District, Brazil