THE HEALTH ISSUE IN BRAZIL The Health Care System provided constitutionally to serve all needed people is now

considered a failed program in Brazil. The public health in Brazil is precarious. Emergency rooms and hospitals are crowded with patients waiting in poor conditions for medical emergency treatment. Moreover, lack of medicines, equipment and even doctors, which in their majority choose to work in big cities and capitals, which leaves the countryside virtually helpless. Health is one of the pillars to give a good quality of life for a society. As in other emerging countries, Brazil is going through serious difficulties to reconcile economic development with social. Nonetheless, with strategic and organizational planning will be possible to improve the conditions of SUS, which means Unified Health System in Portuguese, and offer a better quality of public health. As a first step, public funds should be better allocated in order to promote greater health quality in the country. According to WHO, only 44 % of medical and hospital expenses are supported by the Brazilian government, while in Britain, which has one of the best public health systems in the world, the government covers 83 % of such expenses. With greater financial incentive of the government, Brazil would be able to build and renovate hospitals and emergency units, acquire equipment and technologies to diagnose diseases and also improve treatment conditions. Moreover, another big problem that is affecting the countrys health system and needs to be solved is the lack of qualified professionals, especially in the most remote regions of Brazil. According to statistics, in the capitals and large cities, there are about 7 doctors per 1,000 people. In suburbs and inner cities such number is often reduced to zero. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance and encourage healthcare professionals, offering them career plans with nationwide coverage and better wages, since salaries paid by the government to doctors from the public are well below those paid by the private sector. Based on the events related, it is reasonable to say that the health care system cannot continue as it is anymore. It is evident that the path to a high-quality public health is long, but not impossible. Even though the solutions appear to be obvious to undo this sad reality, it appears that, in fact, it is necessary to promote a radical change in

Brazilian society so that the quality of life of the citizen will grow in all areas, not only in health, but in education and also in the economy. In summary, the public health situation in the country will only become completely efficient, when big investment in this area, without embezzlement and corruption, be done. Associated with these paths, the Government should ensure the basics principles of universality, comprehensiveness and equity of health, established by the Constitution.