Welfare State e emprego em saúde nos países avançados desde o Pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial

The article analyzes the economic importance of the health activities in the developed countries in the last decades of the twentieth century. It takes into consideration the evolution of the weight of the employment in the health activities in European countries' and also in the United States' labour markets, which will be compared in an historical perspective. The evolution and the weight of the public expenditure in the health activities will also be taken into account so as to analyze the economic importance of the sector in the last decades of twentieth century. The role played by the political, economic and social context of the Post-Second World War in the construction of the system of social protection (Welfare State) and its effects over the health activities will be also considered.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Silva,Luiz Marcos de Oliveira, Mattos,Fernando Augusto Mansor de
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	Portuguese
Published:	Centro de Economia Política 2009
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572009000300008
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