Gastos com saneamento básico e atenção básica à saúde no estado de Minas Gerais: prevenir ou remediar?

Abstract

The right to health falls within the sphere of constitutionally guaranteed social rights. In Brazil, it is a subjective public right, an unavailable legal prerogative guaranteed to the majority of people. However, a diversity of diseases occurs in every country, due to the precariousness or lack of basic sanitation. In Brazil there are more than 35 million people without access to treated water, and 100 million do not have access to sewage. This paper aims to evaluate the correlation between expenditures on basic sanitation in relation to the provision of water supply services and sewage collection and treatment and health performance in relation to the Basic Care of the municipalities of Minas Gerais. This research had a quantitative approach, in an explanatory way. The study population was the 853 municipalities of Minas Gerais. Data collection was carried out using the databases used to compose the study are the National Sanitation Information System (SNIS) and DATASUS, in the period from 2010 to 2016. This work made it possible to correlate the intensity of expenditure in basic sanitation influences spending on public health, especially the basic health care provided by the municipalities of the state of Minas Gerais and, from the point of view of the integrality of public policies, how much they meet these requirements. The results also suggest the inequality of the Total Expenditures with Services (DTS), something that may be related to the different supply conditions between more and less developed localities resulting, among other factors, from the adopted state policies.