It analyzes the financing of the Primary Health Care level, with emphasis on the expansion of the allocated resources to the Family Health Strategy. The first part details the growth of the Ministry of Health resources to the primary care, particularly the ones transferred through the Variable Primary Care Wage, which incorporates the different financial incentives headed for municipalities that develop programs in this level of care. The second part analyzes the difficulties of financing bearing in mind the instability of the municipal own resources and it is also discusses some suggestions of changes in the criteria of federal transfer of funds transferred to municipalities.
Healthcare financing; Primary Health Care; Family Health Strategy
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