Financiamento do SUS na região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro nos anos 2000

Abstract

The binding of public revenues to investment in public health services and activities, approved in September 2000 by the Constitutional Amendment 29, has profoundly changed intergovernmental relations in the health sector. In the last decade, states and municipalities raised their share in the financing of the Unified Health System (SUS), while the Union spent the same amount as a percentage of the National Grosso Product (GDP). The Public Health Budget Information System (SIOPS), created and managed by the Ministry of Health, monitors the budgets performance in states and municipalities through the use of an software available in the internet. The objective of this dissertation is to study the data sources on financing of the Unified Health System (SUS) in the period 2000 to 2008. The study is based on the systematization of data on public revenue and expenditure with health services from the Public Health Budget Information System (SIOPS/Ministry of Health), and on the data related to the transfer of resources from the National Health Fund (FNS//Ministry of Health) to the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro. The analysis of the collected data allowed to the author to draw a profile of SUS financing in the territory of the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro. It also permitted the evaluation of the possibilities and limitations of the different information sources on SUS financing in all levels of government.