Análise dos gastos com a saúde no Município de Maceió/AL, no período pré e início da pandemia do Covid-19 - 2017 e 2020

Abstract

The lack of investment in the public sector has been affecting social well-being in Brazil, due to the lack of commitment, responsibility and ethics on the part of government officials, who are responsible for ensuring a good quality of life for the population, meeting basic needs in areas of education, public health, security, among others, such as generating jobs and providing decent housing for the survival of every citizen. The present work has as general objective to analyze the behavior of health expenditures in the city of Maceió/AL, in the three years that preceded the COVID-19 pandemic and in the year 2020, considered the apex of contamination by the virus, to demonstrate the main results. achieved, based on the legal limits established by the federal, state and municipal government in dealing with the pandemic. In order to achieve the objective of the study, the data prepared and made available through the Transparency Portal of the municipality of Maceió were used, in addition to the information published on the websites of the federal government. The methodology adopted in this study used the technique of descriptive and exploratory research in the analysis of health expenditures, to meet basic services, which are fundamental rights, listed in the Federal Constitution in its 6th article. Most of the Maceio population does not know how the municipal executive power has been applying the resources collected from taxpayers and those received by transfer to solve health problems in the city of Maceió, especially when the planet is faced with a pandemic that has decimated millions of human beings. on the face of the earth. The analysis of the data collected and tabulated through tables and graphs, concluded that the municipal body was inefficient in the application of these public resources.