SUS vulnerability regarding exchange rate variation: Analysis of the dynamics of drugs and health equipment import between 1996 and 2014

Cesário, Bernardo Bahia; Costa, Laís Silveira; Maldonado, José Manuel Santos de Varge; Vargas, Marcos Antonio

doi:10.1590/0103-1104201711308

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE • Saúde debate 41 (113) • Apr-Jun 2017 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-1104201711308 copy

SUS vulnerability regarding exchange rate variation: Analysis of the dynamics of drugs and health equipment import between 1996 and 2014

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ABSTRACT

This article is aimed at determining the vulnerability of the Unified Health System when subject to the influence of exchange rates variations on the dynamics of drugs and medical equipment import from 1996 to 2014. The hypothesis that guided this work is that external conditions and economics policies expressed in exchange rates do affect the dynamics of both production and innovation of the Economic-Industrial Complex of Health. It comes to the conclusion that, considering changes that took place, the elasticity of the relationship between import and exchange rate of the segments analyzed herein was not so heavily affected over the period. This result suggests the importance of designing economic models that incorporate those variables.

KEYWORDS
Economics; Importation of products; Drug price; Equipment and supplies; Unified Health System

Year	Exchange rates	Drugs imports: variation and elasticity		Equipment imports: variation and elasticity		Total imports: variation and elasticity
1997	7%	43%	5,93	-4%	-0,58	12%	1,65
1998	8%	4%	0,51	12%	1,51	-3%	-0,43
1999	56%	18%	0,31	-25%	-0,45	-15%	-0,26
2000	1%	-12%	-14,17	-2%	-2,75	13%	15,57
2001	28%	-2%	-0,06	16%	0,55	0%	-0,02
2002	24%	1%	0,03	-13%	-0,55	-15%	-0,62
2003	5%	-3%	-0,58	-14%	-2,66	2%	0,43
2004	-5%	15%	-3,05	17%	-3,38	30%	-6,06
2005	-17%	11%	-0,68	25%	-1,47	17%	-1,02
2006	-11%	26%	-2,43	23%	-2,18	24%	-2,27
2007	-10%	26%	-2,51	25%	-2,43	32%	-3,05
2008	-6%	13%	-2,21	20%	-3,46	43%	-7,46
2009	9%	-1%	-0,08	2%	0,17	-26%	-2,94
2010	-12%	19%	-1,60	26%	-2,20	42%	-3,56
2011	-5%	4%	-0,90	10%	-2,14	24%	-5,05
2012	17%	5%	0,29	3%	0,17	-1%	-0,08
2013	10%	3%	0,32	11%	1,05	7%	0,71
2014	9%	-5%	-0,54	-1%	-0,16	-4%	-0,49

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