Brazilian private health system: history, scenarios, and trends.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health care is a complex economic and social system, which combines market elements and public and social interest. This combination in Brazil, like systems in China and United States of America, is operationalized through the public and private system. The sector represents approximately 9% of the country's GDP, of which 56% is privately sourced and 44% is of public origin. In the private sector includes a structure with 711 private health institutions, 47 million beneficiaries and revenues of US$30 billion a year.

Methods

Therefore, this research describes and analyzes the complementarity of Private Health before the Brazilian Unified Health System, highlighting its main characteristics, scenarios, and trends in the face of the health system and the Brazilian ma

SUBMITTER: Cruz JAW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8751295 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature