Health and Economic Development in Brazil: Analysis of Public Health Expenditure in Brazil Between 1930-1964

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine the debate concerning the health/economic development relation in the course of 1930-64. We intend to show that, specially from the 1950's, the hegemony of the developmentalism ideas implicated in significative change in the discourse regarding the health public expenses, which reflected directly in the managed resources to this area.