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Desigualdade social e saúde no Brasil

2002; Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz; Volume: 18; Issue: suppl Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0102-311x2002000700009

1678-4464

Marcelo Côrtes Nerí, Wagner Lopes Soares,

Global Health Care Issues

This paper studies the relationship between social inequality and health in Brazil. The strategy adopted by the authors was to analyze needs and uses of medical care as well as access to health insurance plans according to income distribution. Determinants of health care consumption were also studied by means of logistic regression. The main source of data was the 1998 National Sample Household Survey of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (PNAD-IBGE). In general, individuals in the lowest income distribution deciles had less access to health insurance, greater need for medical care, and lower consumption of such services. Other determinants of health care consumption were heavily associated with the most privileged social strata (greater access to schooling, water supply, sewerage, electricity, garbage collection, and health insurance) and with factors pointing to the capacity to supply these services in country.