Health in Brazil

Central Hospital of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia in São Paulo, a catholic philanthropic institution offering free services through the SUS.

The fundaments of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) were established in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, under the principles of universality, integrality and equity. It has a decentralized operational and management system, and social participation is present in all administrative levels.[1] The Brazilian health system is a complex composition of public sector (SUS), private health institutions and private insurances . Since the creation of SUS, Brazil has significantly improved in many health indicators, but a lot needs to be done in order to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative[2] finds that Brazil is doing 93.3% of what should be possible at its level of income for the right to health.[3]

  1. ^ Lobato, Lenaura. "Reorganizing the Health Care System in Brazil". Archived from the original on 2008-02-11. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  2. ^ "Human Rights Measurement Initiative – The first global initiative to track the human rights performance of countries". humanrightsmeasurement.org. Retrieved 2022-02-25.
  3. ^ "Brazil - HRMI Rights Tracker". rightstracker.org. Retrieved 2022-02-25.