Health System Outcomes in BRICS Countries and Their Association With the Economic Context.

ABSTRACT: The aim of the article is to compare health system outcomes in the BRICS countries, assess the trends of their changes in 2000-2017, and verify whether they are in any way correlated with the economic context. The indicators considered were: nominal and per capita current health expenditure, government health expenditure, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, and composition of GDP. The study covered five countries of the BRICS group over a period of 18 years. We decided to characterize countries covered with a dataset of selected indicators describing population health status, namely: life expectancy at birth, level of immunization, infant mortality rate, maternal mortality ratio, and tuberculosis case detection rate. We constructed a unified synthe

SUBMITTER: Romaniuk P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7136407 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature