Análise das diferenças horizontais entre os dispêndios públicos em saúde nas capitais nordestinas.

Abstract

Health is a determining factor for the development of a country or region, as it is an essential instrument for the human and productive progress of society. In other words, the relationship between health and development goes beyond economic perspectives, as they have numerous connections and interactions, given that health actions and policies are designed to provide social well-being in sync with productive growth. Within this context, the present work has as main objective to analyze the discrepancies between public expenditures (absolute and relative) destined by the municipal governments of the northeastern capitals for the health sector in the period from 2008 to 2017. In the methodological aspect, the work was configured whether as documentary and bibliographic in terms of data collection procedures and the composition of the literature review; quantitative as to how to respond and address the problem; explanatory as to the object of study; and descriptive, as it seeks to delineate a reality through existing data that were collected from formal sources. As a result, it was possible to verify that the public expenses destined by the prefectures of the northeastern capitals for the health area showed absolute similarity and relative differences. In absolute terms, all city halls started the analysis period with a lower amount and ended it with a higher amount. In relative terms, expenditures with health showed non-conformities, as six capitals increased their spending percentage between 2008-2017 and three capitals decreased. Aracaju, which spent 33.85% of the municipal health budget in 2008 and reduced it to 33.46% in the year 2017; Fortaleza, which started with 33.43% in 2008 and decreased to 31.57% in 2017 and João Pessoa with expenses corresponding to 35.30% in 2008 and only 33.52% in 2017.