Health litigation and cancer survival in patients treated in the public health system in a large Brazilian city, 2014-2019.

Background: Litigation for health care, also known as health judicialization, is frequent in Brazil. It involves recourse to the court system to access health services. The study aimed to evaluate whether cancer patients in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, increased their overall survival by increasing access to certain drugs or treatments through litigation, controlling for the effect of demographic and disease-related variables.

Analysis of demand and access to services in the last two weeks previous to the National Health Survey 2013 and 2019.

Objective: Compare the demand and use of health services between 2013 and 2019, and analyze the associated sociodemographic and health variables in 2019.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with data from the National Health Survey (PNS) 2013 and 2019. The prevalence and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for the demand and use of health services were estimated.

Social isolation relaxation and the effective reproduction number (Rt) of COVID-19 in twelve Brazilian cities.

We analyzed the social isolation relaxation strategies adopted by the twelve biggest Brazilian cities in 2020, in relation to the number of cases, number of deaths and the effective reproduction number (Rt), which are internationally considered the fundamental epidemiological criteria for allowing wider population mobility in public spaces. The Brazilian central government has not set unique guidelines neither for closure nor for opening, and states and cities have taken the lead in strategy definition. Until July 31 2020, in Belém do Pará, Fortaleza, Manaus, Recife and Rio de Janeiro, where the epidemic peak had already been surpassed, and in Salvador and São Paulo, in which the peak seemed to be already reached, the Rt curve followed a decreasing path after the openings.

Noncommunicable diseases, risk factors, and protective factors in adults with and without health Insurance.

This study describes the coverage of health insurance and compares the occurrence of risk factors (RF) and protective factors of noncommunicable diseases in the population with and without health insurancesin Brazilianstate capitals. Data from the telephone survey Vigitel was analyzed. The Poisson regression model was used to estimate the prevalence ratio (PR), comparing RF among those who did or did not have a health insurance.

[Prevalence of risk health behavior among members of private health insurance plans: results from the 2008 national telephone survey Vigitel, Brazil].

This article aims at estimating the prevalence of adults engaging in protective and risk health behaviors among members of private health insurance plans. It was used a random sample of individuals over the age of 18 living in the Brazilian state capitals collected on 28,640 telephone interviews in 2008. The results showed that among males there was a high prevalence of the following risk factors: tobacco, overweight, low fruit and vegetable consumption, high meat with fat consumption and alcohol drinking.

[Health insurance users: self-reported morbidity and access to preventive tests according to a telephone survey, Brazil, 2008].

This article describes a telephone survey in 2008 to monitor non-communicable diseases. The study population consisted of adults (> 18 years of age) living in households with landline telephones in the 27 Brazilian State Capitals. The selected variables are presented according to health insurance coverage (yes/no), gender, and adjusted prevalence ratios between populations with and without health insurance.

[Regulation of supplementary health care: an analysis of the main results].

This article analyzes some recent results of the regulation of supplementary care, particularly in the period 2000-2006. Three analytical axes were defined: the structure and operation of the sector, the economic regulation and the care model regulation. Indicators were used to analyze the evolution of these three aspects.