Health

Unified system

The National Health Card, or SUS Card, outlines the profile of users and health services in Brazil and helps rationalizing the resources of the Unified Health System (SUS - Sistema Único de Saúde). Currently, 144 million people already have the document and it is expected to be made available to the entire population. Moreover, the Ministry of Health has as a target to computerize all of SUS’ units in order to help scheduling high complexity tests and procedures, distributing medicines and monitoring  pregnant women and people with chronic diseases. The information gathered through the use of the SUS Card forms a national database.

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• 144 million Brazilians have the SUS Card

Child mortality rate in 2009
22.5 deaths of children per one thousand live births

Households with access to water supply, sewage disposal system and direct garbage collection in 2009
62.6% of households

Birth rate in 2009
15.77 (per one thousand inhabitants)

Health facilities in 2009
Public: 50,253
Private: 24,523

Hospital beds available to SUS in 2009
Public facilities: 146,177
Private facilities (profit and non-profit making): 168,793

Hospital beds per inhabitant in 2009 
Rate of 2.3 beds per 1000 inhabitants

Number of hospital beds recommended by the Ministry of Health in 2009
Rate between 2.5 and 3 beds per 1000 inhabitants

Hospital beds in health facilities per region in 2009
Southeast: 189,874
Northeast: 108,147
South: 73,405
North: 28,295
Central-West: 32,275

Organ Donors in 2010
963 effective donors in the first semester

Transplants performed in 2010
2,367 transplants in the first semester

Sources (content in portuguese):
Ministry of Health
IBGE
Pnad (National Household Sample Survey)
SIS (Social Indicators Summary)
Medical and Health Assistance Research