Adriano Massuda

TL;DR: The expansion of the SUS has allowed Brazil to rapidly address the changing health needs of the population, with dramatic upscaling of health service coverage in just three decades, but analysis of future scenarios suggests the urgent need to address lingering geographical inequalities, insufficient funding, and suboptimal private sector-public sector collaboration.

TL;DR: It is found that, despite a favourable context, which enabled expansion of UHC from 2003 to 2014, structural problems persist in SUS, including gaps in organisation and governance, low public funding and suboptimal resource allocation, and large regional disparities exist in access to healthcare services and health outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relationship between health-system preparedness, responses to COVID-19, and the pattern of spread of the epidemic in a country marked by wide inequalities in socioeconomic characteristics and other health risks (age structure and burden of chronic disease).

TL;DR: Based on the analysis, the new policy seems to have a restrictive purpose, which should limit universality, increase distortions in financing and induce the focus of PHC actions on the SUS, contributing to the reversal of historic achievements in reducing health inequalities in Brazil.

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative study was conducted to formulate strategic recommendations to strengthen primary health care (PHC) in Brazil's Unified Health System (SUS) based on expert consultation.