A methodology for apportioning federal SUS resources: the health needs index.

OBJECTIVE To present a methodology for apportioning Union resources to the federative units (FU - 26 states and one federal district) within the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) based on health needs measured by demographic, socioeconomic, epidemiological and geographical dimensions. METHODS The apportionment methodology proposal prioritizes the health needs axis, based on Law 141/2012. We adopted a proxy of needs that measures relative inequalities between, socioeconomic, geographic demographic and epidemiological conditions of the populations of the Brazilian Federative Units (FU) for 2015.

[Costs of the chain of treatment procedures in acute myocardial infarction in Brazilian reference and specialized hospitals].

Objective: To present the methodology and the results of a field survey to assess the chain costs of procedures for treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), carried out in 11 Brazilian reference and specialized hospitals.

Methods: The cost assessment used the cost per procedure and per pathology systems. The procedures associated with the treatment of AMI were organized and their logical sequence (protocols) was used to create a flowchart.