Knowledge production as an externality of technological incorporation by the Public Health System

• Grant number: 09/05491-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2009
• End date: August 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Schiavom Duarte
• Grantee: Paulo Schiavom Duarte
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Brazilian Public Health System (SUS) is responsible for the incorporation of many health technologies, and thus, it could be having an indirect function in the scientific production that has not been considered as one of its qualities. The objective of this research project is to evaluate if the technologies incorporation by the Brazilian public health system also results in an increment of national scientific production about those technologies. We will select some medications (pharmacologic technologies) that are offered by SUS. The PubMed database will be used for the search of Brazilian and other countries scientific production about these pharmacological technologies. The Brazilian scientific production about these technologies (Brazilian international ranking position) 1year before SUS incorporation will be compared with the one 5 years after the incorporation. Paired T test will be used to perform this comparison if the data distribution was normal. If the data distribution was not normal, Wilcoxon test will be used. It will also be compared the Brazilian international scientific ranking position between a group of pharmacologic technologies not distributed by SUS with the group of pharmacologic technologies in 2008 year. Unpaired T test will be used to perform this comparison if the data distribution was normal. If the data distribution was not normal, Mann-Whitney test will be used. (AU)