This study aimed to analyze the impacts of public health policies in Brazil in the period 2000-2010, checking its collaboration on the improvement of public health, also investigating the ethical and efficiency of its management aspects. Therefore, was used the methodology of panel data in order to assess the variation in health spending between 2000 and 2010. The results showed that the variation in health spending in Brazil is positively correlated to the development of States, so that is still observed large differences in investment in public health policies among states, mainly in the...