Os custos da violência para o sistema público de saúde no Brasil: informações disponíveis e possibilidades de estimação

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Rute Imanishi
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Cerqueira, Daniel Ricardo de Castro, Lobão, Waldir Jesus de Araújo, Carvalho, Alexandre Xavier Ywata de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/3976
• topic: Sistema Único de Saúde; Sistemas de Informação; Violência

The Brazilian public budget for health was R$ 53 billion (approximately U$ 20 billion) in 2003. What share of this total was to treat victims of violence? It is impossible to estimate that proportion directly, due to limitations in the available data. This paper proposes a methodology to estimate the cost of violence for the public health system, using data from the Unified National Health System, the government budget, and the demand for public medical services (National Household Sample Survey). According to our estimates, in 2004 the costs of treatment for victims of external causes, aggressions, and traffic accidents were R$ 2.2 billion, R$ 119 million, and R$ 453 million, respectively. These findings were approximately four times higher than those observed in other studies.