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Expenditures on compulsory hospitalizations due to drug use in the state of Espírito Santo

ABSTRACT

Compulsory hospitalization due to drug use has been questioned in the Mental Health Policy and expresses the struggle between the principles of Unified Health System (SUS)/Psychiatric Reform versus the private interests about remanicomialization. This paper analyses expenditures on compulsory hospitalizations due to drug use carried out by the State Health Secretariat of Espírito Santo (ES) between 2014 and 2019 and aims to identify its allocation. It outlines brief reflections on the right to health and the disputes over public funds. This is documentary research with data gathered from the ES Transparency Portal. Descriptive statistical analysis and categoric content analysis were used. The data show disputes over public funds and that this is not a transparent process to society. The struggles between the Executive and the Judiciary over the right of access to health treatment are points that must be discussed.

KEYWORDS:
Mental health; Public expenditures on health; Cost transparency

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