Brazilian Primary Health Care Financing Analysis for the Family Health Strategy

A Brazilian analysis of financing for Primary Health Care, with emphasis on the expansion of resources for the Family Health Strategy. It details the growth of Ministry of Health transfers via the Variable Primary Care Wage and examines municipal funding instability. The dataset was authored by Áquilas Mendes from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).

Use Cases

• Modeling federal-to-municipal fund transfers based on the Variable Primary Care Wage incentive structure.
• Analyzing municipal resource allocation instability for primary care programs.
• Evaluating the financial growth of the Family Health Strategy based on described funding trends.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific national health system (Brazil's Unified Health System).
• Analysis includes distinct financial mechanisms like the Variable Primary Care Wage.
• Authored by a researcher from a recognized academic institution (UNICAMP).

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single-country analysis.

Provenance

Source

Áquilas Mendes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Collection Method

Analysis of financing data, likely from government sources.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Brazil