June Alisson Westarb Cruz, Maria Alexandra Viegas Cortez da Cunha, Thyago Proença de Moraes, Sandro Marques, Felipe Francisco Tuon, Arivelton Loeschke Gomide, Gisele de Paula Linhares
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...
January 10, 2022: BMC Health Services Research