11.08.2023 | Editorial
Inside Brazilian nuclear medicine: numbers, projections and behaviors
Erschienen in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Ausgabe 13/2023
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In Brazil, nuclear medicine services are provided mainly by the public Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde-SUS), with the private sector have an important complementary role. The establishment of the SUS was an important social reform considering the socioeconomic inequality in the country. Annual health expenditure in Brazil amounts to 9% of the gross domestic product (GDP), yet less than half of that total is allocated to the SUS. In comparison with other Latin America countries, the per capita expenditure of the SUS is lower than that of the public health systems of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay [1]. …Anzeige