Abstract

SETTI DA ROCHA, Anna Silvia; TULIO MANFRON, Ana Paula  and  SOTTILE FRANCA, Beatriz Helena. Socioeconomic Inequity in the Distribution of Imagery Equipment in the Brazilian Public Healthcare. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2019, vol.19, n.2, pp.19-28. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.3648.

This observational, crosscutting, descriptive study with a quantitative approach has the goal to assess the bioethical implications arising from the socioeconomic inequities regarding the distribution of imagery equipment in the Brazilian public health system. A significant result was found when making the ratio of diagnose equipment to 100.000 inhabitants and the percentage of population with income below the minimum wage. Only two states were found to provide optimum imagery equipment offers in the public health network and low poverty indexes. From the bioethics perspective, a bad distribution of diagnosis equipment can be seen as inequity generated by the public administration.

Keywords : diagnosis equipment; health equity; public health; bioethics; image diagnosis.

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