Gastos públicos com saúde e mortes por suicídiona América Latina

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Sofía Vargas Granja
María Delgado-Galárraga

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O suicídio é um fenômeno que tem aumentado sua magnitude e relevância nas últimas décadas. A Organização Mundial da Saúde aponta que esse problema é a causa de 703.000 mortes por ano em todo o mundo. O presente artigo analisa a correlação entre os gastos públicos com saúde e a taxa de suicídios em 18 países da América Latina: Argentina, Bolívia, Brasil, Chile, Colômbia, Costa Rica, Equador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, México, Nicarágua, Panamá, Paraguai, Peru, República Dominicana e Uruguai, entre os anos 2000 e 2019. Com a aplicação do método dos mínimos quadrados generalizados (MCG), verificou-se que um aumento de 1 ponto percentual na proporção dos gastos com saúde pública em relação ao PIB está relacionado a uma diminuição de 39 suicídios por cada 100.000 pessoas no ano seguinte. O estudo destaca a importância de destinar recursos para promover a saúde mental, especialmente em programas de prevenção, promoção e intervenção com um enfoque multissetorial, que se concentrem em influenciar os determinantes favoráveis à saúde da sociedade e na detecção precoce de pessoas com maior risco de suicídio.

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Vargas Granja, Sofía, e María Delgado-Galárraga. 2026. “Gastos Públicos Com Saúde E Mortes Por suicídiona América Latina”. Estudios De La Gestión: Revista Internacional De Administración, nº 19 (janeiro): 51-73. https://doi.org/10.32719/25506641.2026.19.3.

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