Saúde é direito de todos e dever do Estado: um panorama da destinação dos recursos do Fundo Nacional de Saúde e análise dos blocos financeiros

Abstract

The Ministry of Health is responsible for defining the value of the financial resources that must be sent to each municipality to be applied in the services of the Unified Health System (SUS). And the National Health Fund works as a channel for municipalities to know how much they will receive, and in which blocks, and health care programs should be applied, that is, it is the financial manager of the resources destined to finance current and capital expenses. from the Ministry of Health. It is also through the National Health Fund that the population can consult the amounts of financial resources that were transferred to their municipalities. Therefore, the general objective of this article is to compare how the financial resources sent by the National Health Fund between the years 2015 and 2021 were applied to the municipalities of the Western Frontier of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. As a contribution of this study, it is emphasized that it is possible to know how much each municipality receives to invest in the various areas of public health and, thus, to be able to know the path of the financial resources that are transferred to the municipalities, from the departure of the Ministry of Health to the counties. For this, a descriptive research was conducted, with bibliographic and documentary collection procedures, seeking, thus, to understand how the sending of financial resources of the National Health Fund works.